I am the list owner and you are correct that this discussion is getting way
out there off the track so to speak.
David Ferrin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mobeen Iqbal" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Computer advice.
Hi Guys.
I'm not the list owner, but wasn't this thread meant to have been closed
down ages ago? This person isn't after 100 different opinions on the same
subject. she just wants a simple straight answer and sitting here
debating about this isn't going to help her in the slightest. I've
personally tried windows 7 ultimate 32bit on a PC with jaws 11, 2GB of ram
and a 320 GB hard drive. the pc in question had photoshop, office 2007,
IE8 etc etc and they all ran fine with jaws running, and that was an AMD,
i prefer intel personally. Also, please remember that we don't all have
the money to shop for the latest and greatest, some users have said that
she should get a really really high spec PC. its like when i'm advising
and passing pc's on to the elderly. they just want something that just,
well, works! not something that they can run the latest 3D games on, or
the latest netbook with solid state storage, bluetooth and wireless. to
them, the word bluetooth probably means talking about teath, literally.
But that's besides the point. I'm not trying to say that jenny doesn't
know what she's talking about, and i stand corrected if i have got any
part of this email wrong in advance, i'm mearly saying that if she wants
something basic, then advise her on that basis, and if people want to shop
at superstores where things are a little expensive, there is nothing or
very little one can do about that. I hate PC world, but many of the
people i work with have shopped there, shoot me, my job is mearly to get
them up and running. steve, i've just read your last. I agree with you,
i provide technical support all the time as well as custom PC building,
i'm from the days when we'd have dos on an old BBC computer, and if
someone can get buy with what ever is good for them, so be it. Just my 2
cents or penny's worth depending on where you are.
Best wishes to you all,
Mo.
Scorpio Forever wrote:
Hello Steve,
I don't know where you are shopping, but where ever it is, stop shopping
there immediately, you're getting very ripped off. Grins.
Have you actually tried to run Jaws 11 on a windows 7 system with only 2
gigs or RAM?
I mean, have you actually physically tried it, or are you going on the
basis of supposition and assumption?
The fact is, I've used computers running Windows 7 and Jaws 11 with only
2 gigs of RAM, please believe me, unless I was only running those two
pieces of software, those being the OS and the screen reader, everything
would indeed be fine, but load any other piece of software in addition to
that, and things would start to lag dramatically.
As for the solid state drives being on 160, you're nuts.
One can get a netbook with a 10 inch screen, and a 250 gig solid state
drive for 799, and that is running the latest and greatest software.
I've seen it, and had a chance to play with it at the store where I saw
it, so please, don't assume to speak for the entire population, because
you most assuredly are not the entire population of the world, so you
couldn't possibly speak for everyone.
Scorpio
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