Hi Sarah, When it's important that a particular driver work for you, there's no question: I'd buy the 32 bit operating system. you're not giving up much in speed, or useful extra memory. as for 17 inch laptops, they are a lot heavier than say a 14 inch one; if you have to do much carrying, I would look at buying an external numeric pad, or, consider learning how to simulate a numeric pad with the fn key plus alphabetic keys (it's what most of us do). I wouldn't spend all the extra money for a 17 inch screen, and have to take the weight penalty and the reduced battery life, just to get a numeric pad. Chip
_____ From: Sara [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 3:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Buying a laptop Hi all. I bought a laptop but have to return it because of problems not related to screen-readers. I am looking at other laptops now and am considering Dell ones because of the numeric keypads on their 17-inch models. Does anybody on this list have a Vostro 1720? How does it play with Window-Eyes? Do you have a braille display and if so, which model? I am still trying to determine if my pacmate 20 and 40 displays work with 64 bit Window-Eyes. I have the option of 32 bit as these are business laptops and Dell has more choices for them but want to know if 64 bit operating systems are good with braille as I think I would rather go 64 bit for the future. Does Windows 7 play nice with WE? Thanks. Sara If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
