Re: Laptop compatibility

Yes I'd like to know this also. According to the Freedom Scientific web site, 
you'd need JAWS Pro to work with Media Centre, but I'm about to purchase a new 
PC and JAWS 8 and hope to upgrade from a PC with Media Centre to Vista when it 
is available at the end of January.

I enquired with Freedom Scientific about whether they would offer a free 
upgrade to Vista compatible JAWS and this is what I received below. I thought 
that as the email below indicates, a release to a compatible version of JAWS 
for Vista, would only be a minor upgrade, so wouldn't it be free to everyone 
anyway. I think it certainly should be as we are so close to the release.

Peter

Dear Peter:

Thank you for contacting Freedom Scientific Support.

To answer your question, we referred to Eric Damery, VP of Product
Management Software. Below is his response:

I can't promise that today but... I would suggest that if the customer
is buying JAWS Pro this month, and buys the SMA that will get him the
upgrade to 9 in September 07, and version 10 the following Fall, then we
will promise he can get the Vista support when we post it during the
first quarter of 2007. He can save this Email as a receipt to that
promise.
Regards,
Eric Amery

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: kenargo 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 5:41 AM
  Subject: Laptop compatibility


  I am purchasing a new laptop computer (my old one is getting near its end) 
and would like to know if there are any laptop, or CPUs to stay away from.  I 
remember that there used to be issues with the Centrino CPUs (is this still an 
issue)????

   

  I've also noticed that many of the new laptops are being shipped with Windows 
Media Edition; does anyone know if the standard version of JAWS work for this 
OS or will I need to change to Windows Home/Vista standard or upgrade to JAWS 
for Windows Professional?

   

  Thanks

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