Hi, I know for me, getting totally rid of the desk top or laptop wouldn’t work.
I am a writer, and I just can’t imagine spending long hours trying to write a document on the phone, even with a bluetooth keyboard connected. for one thing, I haven’t yet found a bluetooth keyboard that I like the feel of and that I can write at a reasonabley fast speed on. I also have a rather large collection of files, and this collection is too large to just throw up into the cloud. To my knowledge, there still is no way to connect a portable hard drive to the phone or i pad and access files from it. The idea of compactness and portability are attractive, but honestly, the macbook air is all that, so I guess that’s as small as I’ll get for serious computing. I have an i phone 8 plus and love it, use it all the time, for calls and more, just not for serious work. Cait > On Aug 2, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Gordan Radić <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, there! > > Some people already said some good things, Sieghard made some nice points and > here's my point of view. > > First of all, I'm 42 year old and I started using PC when I was 20 in 1996. I > got my first dumb cellphone at age of 23 in 1999. > > I actually spent first half of my life using landline phone and some > overgrown calculators such as ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64. When I started to > use PC I used it for almost everything. Web browsing, email, chat, VOIP > telephony, writing and reading documents, whatching movies, listening to > music, whatever you can think of. There was a time when I was using my PC as > alarm clock xD. > > I started to use smartphones as of 2004. or something and I got my first > iPhone on 2012. I have to say I use my iPhone to some level but if I need to > do some serious writting, some extended websearch, even for reading 50 emails > or more I'd rather sit in front of my desk and turn my PC on. Maybe this is > easier for sighted folks to acomplish on small touch screen but I'm pretty > much bounded if I can't use keyboard with all ten fingers. > > For some years now I was using iPhone and Windows laptop but since I'm > passionate music listener some months ago I purchased Minix Windows box and > connected it to my TV and HiFi system. I wasn't satisfied with performance, > it was to slow using Windows 10 and Jaws on just 2 gigs of RAM so I replaced > it with serious desktop machine with I5, 8 gigs of RAM and SSD. Of course, I > found horizontal desktop case and put it in my living room below the TV set. > Now I have a decent multimedia player, have my screen reader talk through > HDMI and TV speakers while other sound plays through HiFi system. > > I turned my dumb Grundig TV into a smart one xD. i could use something from > iOS family like old iPad or iPod touch for this purpose and I tried but it > was not so comfortable. I have to say I never learned to use iOS with a > keyboard and I have 14 years of experience with Jaws and later NVDA so this > was also one of the reasons I decided to get this PC instead of some iOS > device. Before Minix I tried Apple TV but I got very disapointed with its > capabilities. I wanted to be able to browse the web and read email but > there's no such thing on Apple TV. > > Maybe I should have go for Mac Mini instead of Windows desktop, the price was > more less the same, I don't know but I don't have the time to learn new > system and new screen reader and on the other hand Windows and Jaws are part > of me for more than twenty years. > > So, the answer is I like my iPhone, as a matter of fact I can't live without > it but still can't use it as the one and only computing device. Maybe this is > because I'm, old fashionned, maybe because I'm not using keyboard with iOS > but this is my experience. > > P.S. There's not a single chance in a million years I would write this long > email using virtual keyboard, even on BSI or MBraille xD. > > > S poštovanjem > > Gordan Radić > > 01.08.2018 u 23:05, regina alvarado je napisao/la: >> I know this is an individual preference, but here is a question for >> consideration. OK, OK, may be a couple questions. LOL. >> >> I am interested in whether anyone only uses a mobile device and never a >> computer, is that possible. I have a Mac Mini, but I never use it. if I >> decided to trade in my Mac Mini, what would I replace it with? If another >> computer, which Apple? If not, what device besides my phone should I >> consider; an Apple watch or a trade-in on an iPad Air? To what? Most >> interested in a laptop if a computer with a small screen. Thanks for any >> thoughts. >> >> >> Reggie and Lex >> God said, "I need somebody strong enough to pull sleds and find bombs, yet >> gentle enough to love babies and lead the blind. Somebody who will spend all >> day on a couch with a resting head and supportive eyes to lift the spirits >> of a broken heart." 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