I agree! There are still things better and easier done with a PC. Printing
is one thing that comes to mind.
Andy
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From: "Caitlyn Furness" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2018 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: what to replace a couple devices with
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
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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." So God made a dog.
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