[gps-talkusers] Re: Sendero & Laptops

This is interesting as I am one who takes my laptop with me to many places
and will use it at Restaurants and/or in transit on BART, Car or Plane. But,
I can't really see my laptop being used for GPS due the size and poor
battery life in comparison to the BrailleNote PK or mPower. I guess that i
have been spoiled with the portability of the BrailleNote PK as I find it
cumbersome to even take the BrailleNote mPower out and use it with the GPS.

I would be interested to hear about reasons for  wanting the GPS on a
Windows machine.

I do agree that creating a long route, over 100 miles would be much faster
on a laptop or desktop, but it would require that you create the route on
the PC, remove the card from the BrailleNote, place it in a card reader,
insert it into the Windows machine and copy over the route then reverse that
process. I think  that you would be looking at at least 5 minutes for that
process, not counting the time it would take to create the route. I would
rather just create the route on the PK and just let it do its thing.

Kevin



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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TERRY BRAY
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:48 AM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Sendero & Laptops

I agree. in fact if a windows version were available i would say i would buy
it. I love the current product and i would not get rid of it but there are
times when a laptop could prove really quite usefull. I get 4 hours out of
mine usb headset and bluetooth keyboard and away i go.

It would also be usefull if you could do your roots then port them to your
Braillenote. I could go on and on but until there is a value for the company
i will stop complainning lol.


Terry Bray
System support Analyst

Owner for the Access-l Mailing list.


--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Stuart Russell <stuart360@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Stuart Russell <stuart360@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [gps-talkusers] Sendero & Laptops
> To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Received: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 6:18 PM One of the more 
> intriguing things I saw at the Acb convention was a very small laptop 
> running System Access software.  This device was about half the width 
> of a normal laptop, was light weight, & cost approximately $400.
> Perhaps it is time again for Sendero to consider a version for 
> laptops.
> 
> Stuart

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