Another reason for JAWS to stop talking is the simple factor of system performance. The more horsepower a system has and the fewer applications that are attempting to share that horsepower, the better JAWS performance will be. Right now, I'm forced to use a laptop with a 1.6 gigahertz processor and while this sounds fast, it's really pretty slow when compared to the 3.0 gigahertz processor on my Dell, which is temporarily unavailable. I can see a huge difference between the performance of the laptop and what I was used to with the Dell and if I forget to close a couple of applications, I will experience some silence from JAWS, especially when in Internet Explorer. JAWS, itself, along with Eloquence, place a lot of overhead on any system and the slower the processor, the poorer the performance is going to be. I don't know what most of you are running, but I wouldn't even consider using JAWS and Eloquence on any system with a processor speed less than 1.5 gigahertz or so and at least 512 megabytes of RAM memory because I can almost guarantee fairly unacceptable performance. JAWS has become more and more sophisticated and, as a result, processor-intensive since version 5 and computers that could run version 5 very well may not be able to handle version 7.0 or 7.10. If your computer is marginal in terms of its processor speed and throughput and you seem to sense that JAWS is performing worse than it used to, you could very well be right, but for the wrong reasons--perhaps you need a new computer.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [jaws-users] Upgrading question Frankly, I can't see that much difference between seven and 7.1. They both stop talking to me whenever they feel like it. Lol. Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
