What are the specs on it. Does it have a "full" keyboard. I am using a
Dell Mini 9 and my one complaint is that there is no function key row and it
is necessary to use the FN key with a key on the home row for function keys
1 thru 10, but there appears to be no F11 or F12. If you want to do the ALT
F4 command you hold down the FN key the F key and the ALT key; which is
somewhat painful.
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From: "Doug Lawlor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Darrell Shandrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: Revisiting the Netbooks issue: The MSI Wind with Window-Eyes?
I've had my Acer Aspire one for about a week and love how this thing
works. The keyboard, although small, is very usable. For me it took
about a day or two to get used too but I can type on this thing very
comfortably. One thing I wish the user could change is the ability to
use a single key to access the home and end keys. To access these keys
you have to use the FN key along with the page up and down keys, which
are located on either side of the up arrow key, to gain access to home
and end functions.
I installed my applications by copying the contents of the CDs to a USB
thumb drive and installing them from the thumb drive. This method worked
for me like a charm. This machine certainly could be used as a primary
system for the average user and I'm sure even for some power users.
Some applications I've installed thus far are:
Window Eyes version 6 <http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/>
Eboostr version 3 beta http://www.eboostr.com/beta/>
AVG anti virus <http://free.grisoft.com>
Mozilla Firefox Version 3 <http://www.getfirefox.com>
Mozilla Thunderbird Version 2 <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/>
Kurzweil 1000 version 9 <http://www.kurzweiledu.com/kurz1000.aspx>
I am going to install Office 2007 in January and am not anticipating any
problems. One thing I did was download the eboostr program and installed
it creating a cache on a four GB SD card. If you want to download the
beta version 3 of this program you have the option of prioritizing
applications so the applications you use most often load faster. This
machine is certainly faster than my four year old Dell Inspiron 700M
running a 1.8 GHZ processor and 512MB ram.
This is a really nice little system for the price.
Doug
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