Re: need laptop suggestions

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:02:44 -0800

That's interesting that you get more battery life than it says. On both laptops I have, I get less battery life than it actually says. I thought that was because I was using window eyes all tha time and so I was using the sound in it all the time. Pam.
-----Original Message----- From: Alan Paganelli via Talk 
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 9:46 AM
To: Don H ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: need laptop suggestions
This is probably a great time to buy a laptop with all the Christmas specials coming out on Thanksgiving day. That's how I got my windows HP 64 bit 17.3 inch laptop with 10 hours battery life which in reality gives just about 11 hours on a full charge. I paid $699.99. Granted that was around 4 or 5 years back. I had 1 problem with it. I don't even remember what it was but it was covered. HP kept me informed every step of the way and were very nice to me. When calling me, I said that I was totally blind and couldn't read the information on the bottom of the laptop they wanted, the guy I talked to said you know what, let's just have you send it to us and we'll just go ahead and fix it. As I recall, it took about 10 days and I had it back. I'v not had any other problems sense then. The laptop is not lite weight by any means and came with a DVD CD player recorder and a Blueray player which I'v never used. What would be the point I thought! So, if you wait for the hol 
iday specials you can get a nice laptop at a great price.

HTH


Alan

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On Nov 16, 2015, at 2:36 PM, Don H via Talk <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't think brand is as important as not buying the cheapest one you find. In my experience cheaper laptops have cheaper less durable keyboards as well as poorer quality speakers. Also the hinges for the screen are sometimes stronger on the more expensive laptops. 


On 11/16/2015 4:20 PM, gary melconian via Talk wrote:
Also have the Toshiba satleite pro which is pretty good laptops. Also like 
Dell as well. But I get the signature editions or the small business
editions which don't have any of that junk ware on bord.

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I got the Dell Inspiron 17R in April 2014, with 8 gigs of RAM and a terabyte harddrive. I just had to get the microphone replaced, but it wasn't nearly the hassle I thought it would be. Overall, I've been very happy with the two 
Dell laptops I've owned over the last seven years.

















Evan

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From: Matthew Chao via Talk
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 10:51 AM
To: Jed Barton ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: need laptop suggestions
If you can afford it, go for the Dells that are geared toward the business 
environment.  the OS is professional grade, as are the components inside
these machines. The Latitude series is a good place to start. And yes, you 
can permanently disable the trackpad/touchpad.  Recommend the 15.5-inch
screen if you want a numpad.--Matthew Chao

At 10:35 AM 11/16/2015, you wrote:

I heard the dell enspiron 15 5000 series is pretty good.  Full
keyboard, 8 gigs ot ram.

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On Nov 16, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Karyn Campbell via Talk

<[email protected]> wrote:

With an HP Pavilion, you have to disable the track pad in each

session. That

means every time you log on you must disable the track pad as there
is no known way to permanently disable that annoying thing.  I think
it has to be done in the properties somewhere.  My husband knows how
to do it

so he would

have to explain that one.

I would absolutely stay away from Lenovo.  Those are  no good IMO as
the F keys across the top perform media functions; not the
traditional functions.
Also to shut Window-Eyes down is a four-key combination of
ctrl-insert-function key-F4.  Before someone pipes up about
function-escape to reverse the F keys, I don't know if that is a
permanent fix or

a emporary

one.  I'm betting it's a temporary one that has to be done every
time you log on to the machine.

Thanks.

Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [email protected] Using WE 9.2  on
HP Pavilion laptop running Windows 8.1 home premium 64-bit with
Office 2013 and IE 11 as well as Acer netbook running Windows 7 home
premium 64-bit with Office 2007 and IE 11 and Microsoft Windows
Defender onAcer netbook as well as Macaffee Live Safe on HP Pavilion.

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