[gui-talk] MSI Wind and Aspire One

Mon Dec 22 20:08:16 UTC 2008

yes, that's the right combination. Also, since I use the mouse pointer 
quite a bit for every-day use, the numpad is a major issue. But to each 
his own <smile>.

Darrell Shandrow wrote the following on 12/22/2008 2:29 PM:
> Hello Raul,
> 
> Pressing FN along with the F10 key toggles the battery saving mode. When in 
> this mode, the CPU slows to 800 MHz, which is half its top 1.6 GHz speed. I 
> guess the numeric keypad issue doesn't bother me enough to represent a deal 
> breaker. :-)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:28 AM
> Subject: [gui-talk] MSI Wind and Aspire One
> 
> 
> I like the Aspire One keyboard a little better. While the MSI wind has a
> larger keyboard and is easier with many of it's keys, I don't care for
> the size of the comma, period, and slash keys in the bottom right. They
> are a bit narrow for me, and so as I type, I tend to press the slash key
> rather than the period key. Even though the Aspire One keys are a bit
> smaller than the MSI, I've never had an issue pressing the period when I
> need to. Small things, but all in all, aside from the embedded numberpad
> issues the MSI Wind has, it's keyboard is still very nice. What I
> especially like is the size of the shift and enter keys. I also like
> it's management of the battery. You can press fn-key together with f8 I
> believe, or f9 maybe, and adjust how much battery is used. When it's in
> lower-mode, the screen dims and the over-clocking is not used. All in
> all, it's a great buy. What I didn't like about the MSI numlock keyboard
> is if you turn on numlock, the j k l u i o act as 1 2 3 4 5 6 as they
> should, but you don't need to press the fn-key. This is not standard to
> other laptops and makes it quite weird if you are typing a lot of
> numbers and letters at the same time because you can't just type a j and
> get the j, you will get a 1. On most other laptops, when you have the
> numlock on, and you type a j, you still get a j, but if you hold fn-key,
> and j, then you will get the 1. I think the MSI should follow this
> standard, but it does not. That is unfortunate because for me, it's a
> deal breaker. All other things about it are great.
> 
> Darrell Shandrow wrote the following on 12/22/2008 11:20 AM:
>> Hello Raul,
>>
>> How do you like the keyboard on the Aspire One? I know I'm absolutely
>> thrilled with the one on the MSI Wind.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
>> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 6:43 AM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] laptop recommendations, please
>>
>>
>> The Acer Aspire One is a good buy for around $349.00 in most places.
>> It's very small, just about 2 pounds in weight and runs with Window-Eyes
>> just fine.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> seville allen wrote the following on 12/21/2008 8:18 PM:
>>> I am shopping for a laptop.  I'd like it to be fairly lightweight
>>> (recognizing that very light may be more money than I have to pay); I
>>> don't
>>> care about a high resolution screen, just enough for a seeing technician
>>> if
>>> one is needed some time.  I use jfw and currently XP home edition with
>>> outlook and office 2002 home edition.
>>>
>>> I do see that most new computers now run vista which I will learn if I
>>> have
>>> to do so.  And some salespeople told me that some business .com sites
>>> still
>>> sell xp computers and, according to the salespeople, xp will most likely
>>> be
>>> used for a long time by many.  And, what antivirus protection would you
>>> recommend given jfw doesn't like some of the antivirus programs.
>>> Brand and power, etc recommendations would be helpful.  I'm a pretty good
>>> user and can navigate my way around installing software and doing some
>>> troubleshooting, but the techie talk about ram, drives, processors, etc
>>> make
>>> my brain wiggle!  Help from those of you who know these things is 
>>> welcome.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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