This isn't a laptop. It is a reading device. My laptop's speakers are crap too, I wouldn't want to listen to them for long. Wireless doesn't make it easier to read books, and braille, forget it; it'd cost three grand with that and weigh three times as much at least. On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:54:09 -0400, you wrote: >not a standoff but a conflict. Many people have not bought them >because they don't support braille, they don't support wireless, they >don't have onboard storage and they don't have a speaker. Why does >pac mate have a speaker if it's so unimportant not to have one? How >about braille note, braille sense and even laptops? Oh, you guys who >think a speaker is necessary can just go pound peas. So What if the >device talks. This brings up another matter. It'd be really cool if >we could use the bp as a synth for our computers. Yes, with a >speaker in it. > >-- >Jonnie Apple Seed >With his: >Hands-On Technolog(eye)s > > >On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Walt Smith wrote: > >It's also a customer request to not add a speaker and that's a standoff. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 11:20 AM >Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport needs a speaker: > > >It could be small and still sound good. IIt could be on the back of >the unit. It might make the unit a bit larger depending on design, >but it would be hugely worth it and this is no opinion. It may well >be a bad idea, but it is a customer request.