So Raul,
Which turned out to be your favorite? Inquiring minds want to know.
Andy
At 01:31 PM 1/26/2009, you wrote:
Chip. This is not my experience at all, and I have reviewed 4
different netbooks. All in all, they all for the most part have;
* Atom 1.6 ghz processor
* 1 gb of ram
* 120 or 160 gb of hard drive space
* 3 or 6 cell battery
* built-in wireless
* onboard lan
* onboard camera
* Windows xp-home
Some have the added bluetooth support, a modem, and/or a few other
extras. In any case, since the hardware is about the same, what it
comes down to is how you feel about its keyboard, its management of
the battery, its shape, size, and feel. While opening Word, Excel,
or Powerpoint, they work fine. While using Internet Explorer and/or
Firefox, they work fine. Not as fast and screeming as a desktop pc
with far more power, but not as bad as one might think.
Hope this helps.
Chip Orange wrote the following on 1/26/2009 2:56 PM:
Hi Steve,
If you're doing it because of the cost, then you may want to know that
system access is offering a "netbook" version of their screen reader for
$150. I don't know what's cut out to restrict it to netbooks.
Well, my impression of these devices is that their processing capability
is very limited and slow; if you're using it for synthetic speech, and
running a screen reader, and trying to do something like run internet
explorer or ms word, I'd guess you'd better have some real patience.
I'm not an owner of one, but they have to get the cost down somehow, and
I thought processor speed was one of the ways.
My preference, if money is not the only issue, would be to find the
screen size and resolution that's the cheapest for a given line of high
performing laptops. That's usually been the 14 inch ones lately, but it
could be the 12 inch ones by now.
Then you shouldn't have any worries in adding a full-fledged screen
reader like window eyes, with synthetic speech.
Chip
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve "The Jazz Man" Bauer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 1:56 PM
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Subject: W.E. and Netbook PC's
I'm looking at possibly purchasing one of these new small Netbook computers.
Samsung MC10 appears to be top on my list at this point.
Does W.E. run successfully on these small units?
Thanks.
Steve
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