Hi Shaun, Well, then it will come as a big surprise to you that the better the graphics card the better Jaws, Window-Eyes, Hal, etc will work with it. You really do need that extra memory etc if you are dealing with offscreen models and all the other stuff that screen readers use. Plus these days starting with Windows Vista and Windows 7 you definitely don't want the cheapest, most low-end, video card because all that 3d graphics for Windows arrow requires a pretty decent video card. The more memory on the video card to handle Windows arrow the less physical ram has to be used to handle the new desktop environment, graphics, and animation. Which, unfortunately, is exactly the problem with your opinion.
You and a lot of others believe since you can't see it that you don't need a high-end video card. Why does it matter? Why do I need it? I can't see it so buy the cheapest thing on the market. The problem with that opinion/attitude is that its based on some eronious assumption that it doesn't matter, but it does matterfor a lot of reasons. Windows, inparticular, is a highly graphical operating system. It was designed for the sighted market therefore requires a fairly decent video card, lots of ram, and processor power. Windows 7 especially is extremely graphical, and a lot of people, including companies, have to replace a lot of their XP era video cards just to run it because the level of detail and animations in the graphics technology has changed that much since XP. The rule of thumb is the more ram etc you have on the video card the better if you plan to run Windows 7, because you need it for all the new graphics. And if you are thinking you'll just turn it off you can't. You are limited how much you can turn down/off in Windows 7 compared to XP. I'd like to say this was limited to Windows 7, but I can't. Truth is thanks to Microsoft's drive to market Windows with the most realistic graphics and animation possible other developers like Apple and linux are slowly cranking up the graphicaal content of their desktops as well. Ubuntu Linux 11 apparently has a new desktop theme/environment called Unity. I don't know much about it, but it is suppose to be a lot more graphical than previous Ubuntu desktop versions. This ups the system requirements somewhat because now they are trying to compete with Microsoft for the flashiest, most graphical, most awesome looking desktop U.I. All that spells out high-end video card for sighted and for the blind to run it. That has nothing to do with weather you can actually see it or not. On 4/20/11, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well one thing no one has got yet is the fact that the blind won't > always have the best graphics. > In fact when buying a computer I am always trying for the lowest > crappiest, buggyest and cheapist card I can get. > Ok so by default we may get stock graphics weather it be 128 256 512 etc. > But you can be assured no one is gona go out of their way to get a > good graphics card. > In fact I always start any of my systems off by either installing the > windows graphics drivers or cutting out most of the visual configs on the > card. > Its needed, but only for windows to boot really. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
