Re: in the market for a new laptop:suggetsions?

  • From: "Paul Hunt" <huntp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:45:18 -0000

Hi,
If I were you my main concern would be finding a laptop downgradable to XP. I doubt you'll find one these days that comes with it pre-installed though - Vista is ubiquitous now and it's a right pain in the ass.
I've bought two new machines in the past 12 months - an HP laptop and an HP desktop and they both came with Vista Home Premium and the quality of JAWS's support for it is well below that of XP. Even simple tasks like reading back and forth through text files (regardless of the editor being used) causes problems such as the previous line being read instead of the next one when you down-arrow and then repeated "blank" being spoken when you arrow back upwards until you refresh the screen. Also the command prompt isn't read properly under Vista - as soon as the window starts to scroll JAWS starts reading random lines from the window under the command prompt! It doesn't read some of the dialogues in VS 2005 that it does under XP either. These are just a few examples.
I've just bought a new laptop and my main priority was making sure it supported XP.
AMD processors are just as good as Intel ones and they generally have slower clock speeds but are more efficient so compare favorably with Intel chips that are clocked quicker. 

Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: in the market for a new laptop:suggetsions?



that answers a lot.
I've seen amd processors out there, and hear they're really good; their speed calculations look different from pentium though. How is that measured? 

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Nimer" <nimerjaber1@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: in the market for a new laptop:suggetsions?



Hello,
your operating system is not a trial!!!!! If you want XP, you're going to have to request it from the manufacturers. I would go for a 64-bit machine with a 32-bit OS personally. At least 2 gigs of ram, but I would up it. As big a hard drive you can get, at least a core 2 duo or an AMD x2 processor, at least 256 MB video card dedicated memory. 

Thanks
Nimer J

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Tyler Littlefield wrote:

Hello list,
I'm in the market for a new laptop.
My max price range is about 1100. I'm not totally sure what I need; of course I'm looking for the best deal, but I also need something that Jaws will work on. From what I've heard, jaws does not work on 64-bit vista; are there still laptops shipped with 32 bit, or even better XP? I know a lot of the computer companies started sending everything with vista. I've also seen things like 60 day trials and etc on vista; am I going to have to purchase a full copy after I get the laptop? 

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
web: tysdomain-com
Visit for quality software and web design.
skype: st8amnd2005

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