What other considerations are there with an external synthesizer? I am looking at up-dating my laptop and would love to know if I should be going with an external synth or at least if I should plan on the option when I am not portable to use a quicker solution. Julie From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Carlson Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:48 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Laptops and hardware synthesizer for JFW As far as slowing down, The need for an external synth is becoming less relevant as we move into faster processors. By the time you reach a 2 GHz machine you don't have much speed advantage with an external synth. Note that I said speed. There are other considerations, but for speed, save your money if you already have a fast processor. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Julie Bentley <mailto:julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 15:24 Subject: RE: Laptops and hardware synthesizer for JFW I would love to hear more about synthesizers slowing down PC performance. I sure do find that my JAWS speech does not keep up with me especially when I am alt tabbing from program to program. Sorry, I have no knowledge to share with you about hardware for JAWS but would love to hear what others have to say. Julie