Hi. You will need to install Window-Eyes from an SD card or USB stick as
these little machines don't have cd rom drives, I recommend really
checking different models out first because you may not like the
keyboards. Lastly, the wireless chip supports wep, wpa and wpa2 afaik on
all of them.
One which I don't recommend, but this is my personal opinion, is the MSI
Wind. Although its hardware is pretty much the same as other netbooks,
and its keyboard is a good size, you cannot use the embedded number pad
the way you are supposed to. So this means that if you are like me and
use the mouse pointer a lot with Window-Eyes, you can't hold the fn-key
down and the letter j to simulate the number pad 1 for bottom left. It's
very annoying and a deal breaker for me. I don't want to switch to a
laptop layout, and I don't want to purchase a 10-key pad. So the MSI
Wind was out. I gave it to my wife who doesn't concern herself with such
trivial matters, *smile*.
The Acer is a good machine, but I personally found its keyboard to be
spongy feeling. The Samsung is great although I don't personally own
one. And the one I have, the Asus EEEEEEEEEEEE PC is a great buy as well.
Oh, and the Dell ones don't even have actual function keys. So that's
another one I wouldn't recommend.
Hope this helps.
On 8/16/2009 6:01 PM, Ray Campbell wrote:
Hello:
We're both thinking about getting a Netbook to replace our Braille Note and
Voice Note, respectively. I have some questions.
1. For anyone using Window-Eyes on a Netbook, are there any things that we
should be aware of?
2. From your experience, do most Netbooks support WPA encryption for WiFi?
3. Have any of you put Office 2007 on a Netbook and if yes, what issues, if
any, did you have?
Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
Ray Campbell
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