To make them small, some things have to go. Personally I haven't missed it and I suspect most feel the same way as me.

On 8/18/2009 10:35 AM, Sandra Fouts wrote:
So raul,  none of the netbooks have a cd  rom drive?  I  thought about getting 
one but I'm not sure I will now.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:21 AM
To: GW Info Discussion List
Subject: Re: Netbooks and Window-Eyes

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
[email protected]

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