At 04:03 PM 29/07/2004, you wrote:
The Braillenote is not and never has been marketed as a lap top. The
pocket pcs
That are used by sighted persons are not lap tops.
A pocket PC does not cost a quarter of the price of a Braillenote.
One of the things that makes the Braillenote the device it is the fact
that a person with limited computer skills can learn to do many tasks
with the Braillenote that would seem daunting were this same individual
to attempt such work on a PC.
Lap tops are not note takers, or for that matter, PDAS.
I never stated that we would have to loose the functionality that we have
all come to love about the BrailleNote family. I would like to see the
ability to connect standard hardware such as usb printers, scanners, and
so on. I can not see why the Braillenote could not run something like
Windows XP Embedded so we then could have functionality such as OCR
scanning. Sure this hardware as it stands now is useful to a lot of people
including me. but it does to little for the price we have to pay for it.
If I could not have gotten a grant to buy my BN I would not be able to
have one. On the other side of the coin if something major happened to my
BN tommorrow I could not afford to fix it and would be stuck with a
useless paperweight. There is clearly something wrong when a sighted
person can buy a PDA to meet their needs for about $600 and we as blind
people have to pay over $8000 for less functionality.
Doug
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Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:59 AM
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Subject: RE: [Braillenote] USB port on BN?
I have to disagree that the braillenote will never be a pc or a laptop.
Todays new motherboards are getting very small. Sure we won't see a
CD/DVD
rom drive but I can't see any reason why we can't have a hard disk, USB
Port, VGA monitor port, and conventional memory. I think for the price
we
pay for these machines we should expect laptop functionality and no
less!
Doug
At 06:31 PM 28/07/2004, you wrote:
>We can say that the BN family should have been more mainstream, should
>have USB, should be better organized, should be perfect. It's still
just
>a notetaker, it isn't, and never will be, a PC or laptop. There's only
so
>much room in the machine, and only so much we can afford to
>pay. Something had to give somewhere, and not everyone is satisfied
with
>what we have. It's still a great little machine!
>
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>Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:58 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Braillenote] USB port on BN?
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>
>Hello Richard:
>
>In my opinion, hind sight should have been 20-20!! How so? Before the
>advent of the BrailleNote, PulseData knew that USB ports were in vogue.
The
>company should have incorporated them into the BrailleNote from the
onset.
>However, there is always a reason to charge more, so we'd constantly go
to
>the drawing boards to re-do all the evaluations again.
>
>Sincerely,
>Olusegun
>
>
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