[access-uk] Re: small portable laptops
- From: Carol Pearson <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:44:45 -0000
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From: Richard Godfrey-McKay
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 11:40 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: small portable laptops
> Graham, The laptop Carol mentions has, apparently now been replaced
> by the XPS1330. If it's anywhere as good as the 1210 I'd be
> confident to recommend it. Re size, the 1210 is the same size as a
> sheet of a4 or qx pacmate. Battery (which sticks out from the back by
> less than an inch is about 5 and a half hours with brightness turned
> down.
> Hope this is of some help.
> The thing I like about the Dell machines is that I have found them to
> be hardwearing, and reliable.
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> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Graham Page
> Sent: 28 March 2008 01:23
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] small portable laptops
>
>
> Hi all.
>
> After giving some really close and serious consideration to the range
> of note takers with Braille displays available, I have decided to go
> with a laptop and a Braille display because I want to be able to work
> with Microsoft Word documents. I regularly need to use word
> documents with tables and, to be honest, none of the note takers
> available work well with these.
>
> So, as well as a Braille display which I will ask about in another
> email, I require a decent light weight laptop. Ideally it should
> weigh 1.6 KG or less. I have heard of a few. There is the Samsung
> Q45, the Dell Latitude D430 and maybe other dell latitudes as well
> and I believe Toshiba and HP do some small models but I would be
> interested to hear views of people with small laptops.
>
> Also, as battery life can some times be a bit short I would like a
> second battery or maybe a high capacity battery, even if it sticks
> out of the back a little. What I would also like however is a way of
> charging a battery without having it plugged in the computer as
> having to charge a battery, swap it, and charge another is what I
> call a real pain! What I am saying is I would like to be able to
> charge 2 batteries at once in some way.
>
> regards
>
> graham
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> Graham Page
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> http://www.eset.comThe other thing I like is that the keyboard is very
> straightforward to learn and it's got a very good action.
The minus side is that these, like so many others nowadays, come with lots
loaded that you don't want ... but you live with that arrangement, take off
what you don't need and then you're really pleased with the laptop!
--
Carol
carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxx
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