H. List members asked me to keep them informed of my progress with my new Chromebook so here goes. Firstly I have a Lenovo Model E500 which has 4GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD. Various configurations of the E500 are available with different RAM and SSD sizes going up to 256GB SSD and 16GB RAM but all seem to have the same connection set of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, Micro SSD card slot, 2 USB-A 3.0 and 2 USB-C 3.1 ports along with a headphone/microphone combo jack and stereo speakers. The first surprise I got was when typing on the keyboard which doesn’t feel cramped and has a good comfortable feel to the key travel. The E500 is also a tablet - fold the screen around on the 360 degree hinge to gain access to the screen as a tablet touch screen -. Although the E500 is only an 11-inch model the touch screen seems much bigger when you start working with it. Turing on Chromevox - the built-in Screen Reader - is done by booting up the machine and typing ctrl-alt-Z on the keyboard, the machine beeps and a message telling you that Chromevox is enabled is spoken. If using the screen then press both volume up/down keys together for 5 seconds, wait for the audible tone and keep holding to enable Chromevox. Operations from this point are fairly straight forward though you will need to use the “Search” key in combination with other keys on the keyboard to navigate with Chromevox, like other Screen Readers Chromevox will issue brief instructions on the commands available according to the appropriate context and environment of working. The user needs a Google account and I have one so I just signed in following the prompts and allowed my new Chromebook to sync data from my Google account. The search key on the E500 is where the Caps Lock key would normally be on a keyboard so the next question is how the hell one toggles Caps Lock? I’ve not found out as yet. In the time I’ve ad the Chromebook I’ve performed various tasks including my regular daily afternoon read of Theaustralian newspaper, listening to various radio stations through their web sites and editing documents with Google Docs. A bug pointed out in a review of Chromevox - characters being echoed a quarter of a second or so after being enter - seems to have been squashed thank goodness, all voice feedback whilst using Google Docs to type was pretty much heard instantly after each key was pressed. So that’s a basic summary of just over 48 hours with the Lenovo E500 Chromebook.
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