Raul,
It helps some, but I thought they were say half the price of a laptop?
If that's the case, the one article I had read said they achieved this
price cut by giving you components that were slower, hotter, and a
screen that was smaller, dimmer, and lower resolution.
They implied, in the review article that did some testing, that slowness
(of everything; bus speed, hard drive, and processor/memory, and a
processor without L2 cache), made for an experience where say, loading
MS Word was grindingly slow, but use of the web, where the server at the
other end, and the speed of your internet connection were your
bottlenecks, would seem only slightly slower.
So, I'm looking for what even defines a "netbook", since the article
said it was a slower, but cheaper, notebook computer.
BTW, I talked to someone on the sales staff of GW, and he said the Oqo,
what you might call a netbook, although an expensive one, was still too
slow to run window eyes with synthetic speech, and a processor intensive
application like speech recognition. In his opinion, you needed a full
high end laptop to run it all, and that's been my experience with a high
end Dell laptop with a 2.2 ghz processor, loads of RAM and L2 cache,
that it bearly keeps up with the demand placed on it by window eyes and
synthetic speech (and windows). I've seen times when response time
isn't what you would call acceptible, and when I've removed window eyes
and synthetic speech and had a sighted person try the same things, it's
been ok. This is why I respected his analysis that a screen reader and
synthetic speech can place quite a load on a system themselves.
thanks.
Chip
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-----Original Message-----
From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 4:31 PM
To: GW Info Discussion List
Subject: Re: W.E. and Netbook PC's
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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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
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(850) 413-6314
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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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