You can achieve a full keyboard by getting one of those USB mini
numpads. Where can you buy the Wind? i haven't seen it offered by
any of the on line vendors that i follow.
Andy
At 11:49 PM 11/23/2008, you wrote:
Hi David,
Yes, the Wind has a full keyboard, except for numpad. It is an excellent
machine, and WE flies on it pretty well. Puts things like the Smalltalk to
shame at less than half the price.
All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: David Tanner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday 24 November 2008 03:52
To: Doug Lawlor; Darrell Shandrow
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Revisiting the Netbooks issue: The MSI Wind with Window-Eyes?
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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