Ottawa Canada Hi Terry and list:
When shopping for a notetaker, Braille display, or any other Access Technology, it pays to read the manufacturer's spec sheets and ideally, have a hands-on trial of the exact make and model and revision of the unit you are intending to buy. This way you get to find out just how easy/hard the unit is to use, and any quirks it has. You also are confirming that the features the salesman is touting actually exist in the product and work as advertised. If you find features that don't work and the salesman says they will have a fix for it in two weeks, tell him fine, you'll be back in two weeks to try the unit with the fix. And don't assume the fix still has all the stuff that worked before still working! It is not unheard of for a fix to fix one thing and break something else! I think I said something like this to you when you were buying a speech card and software for ms-dos from a certain Canadian company that is now out of business years ago. Vapourware is very cheap to talk about, but can be darned difficult to change into working software or hardware. When you buy a notetaker or any Access Technology, you are parting with a heck of a lot of your own or someone else's money for it and you really have to ensure that you are receiving good value for the money. Humanware likes to test things fairly thoroughly before they leave Christchurch but even so, bugs manage to creep into the products that aren't detected during testing. Take care. Brian -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/436 - Release Date: 01/09/2006 ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
