[access-uk] Re: Ultra Mobile PCs

  • From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:19:20 +0100

So steve, what is Ubuntu ? Sounds like it might be speech software, is this 
because JFW doesn't work on hand helds? -

Andy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:40 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ultra Mobile PCs


| Hi Dean,
|
| I agree it won't talk out of the box, but I do know people who have wiped
| the Linnux distro that comes with it, and put Ubuntu on it, and 
successfully
| got it talking.
|
| All the best
|
| Steve
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of
| Dean Wilcox
| Sent: Monday 25 August 2008 21:42
| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ultra Mobile PCs
|
| I read on another mailing list, so I don't know
| how reliable this is, that getting Linux to talk
| on the Asus PCs was tricky.  It apparently won't
| work as it comes out of the box - they were
| wanting to use it that way but ended up putting
| Windows XP on it with a screen reader.  All I'm
| really saying is that if your going to buy an
| Asus EEE PC and plan to use Linux then do some
| research first to make sure something like Orca will work.
|
| At 20:48 25/08/2008, you wrote:
| >Hi Steve what speech program can you use with
| >Linux. I was told that Linux doesn't support the
| >current market of speech programs.
| >----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:23 PM
| >Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ultra Mobile PCs
| >
| >
| >>Hi Barry,
| >>
| >>XP Home or Linux.  Both of which will of course, talk.
| >>
| >>All the best
| >>
| >>Steve
| >>
| >>-----Original Message-----
| >>From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
| Of
| >>Barry G
| >>Sent: Monday 25 August 2008 17:30
| >>To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >>Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ultra Mobile PCs
| >>
| >>Do you know what operating system it's using, and will it run a screen
| >>reader?
| >>
| >>All the best,
| >>Barry G
| >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Wilcox" 
<wilcoxdean@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| >>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >>Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 5:25 PM
| >>Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ultra Mobile PCs
| >>
| >>
| >>>I am surprised the Asus EEE mobile PC isn't getting more of a mention.
| Its
| >>
| >>>a mobile PC like we're discussing here but the hard drive is flash 
based.
| >>>It only has a 4 or 8 GB drive depending on model but you can use SD 
cards
| >>>to boost this.  This makes it quieter and the battery life is over 3
| hours,
| >>
| >>>I'm sure I heard 3.5.
| >>>
| >>>At 16:48 25/08/2008, you wrote:
| >>>>Hi Steve,
| >>>>
| >>>>"I have just ordered the MSI Wind, primarily because it has a slightly
| >>>>more gutsy processor than the Advent on it..."
| >>>>
| >>>>Hmmm, from what I read the MSI Wind and the Advent are the same. The
| >>>>reviews say that the Advent is the MSI Wind only repackaged under a
| >>>>different brand name for UK market and sold by PC World. It worth
| >>>>mentioning that the new EEEPC is using the Atom Intel processer too.
| >>>>
| >>>>Cheers,
| >>>>Amro
| >>>>
| >>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >>>>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >>>>Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:31 PM
| >>>>Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ultra Mobile PCs
| >>>>
| >>>>
| >>>>>Hi Saqib,
| >>>>>
| >>>>>I have just ordered the MSI Wind, primarily because it has a slightly
| >>>>>more
| >>>>>gutsy processor than the Advent on it.  Also, I read in reviews that
| the
| >>>>>fan
| >>>>>on the Advent is a bit noisy.  Is this true?
| >>>>>
| >>>>>All the best
| >>>>>
| >>>>>Steve
| >>>>>
| >>>>>-----Original Message-----
| >>>>>From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
| Behalf
| >>>>>Of
| >>>>>Saqib
| >>>>>Sent: Monday 25 August 2008 12:56
| >>>>>To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >>>>>Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ultra Mobile PCs
| >>>>>
| >>>>>Hi Andy I have the Advent 4211 10 inch mini laptop. It has XP HOme 
and
| >>>>>1GB
| >>>>>RAM and 80 GB hard disk space. Battery life will be around 1 hour and
| 40
| >>>>>mins roughly. It has 3 USB ports and the fan vents are on the left
| side.
| >>>>>I
| >>>>>run System Access which is my preferred screen reader and I think 
Jaws
| >>>>>will
| >>>>>run nicely on the machine. I will run a demo on the machine later to
| see
| >>>>>if
| >>>>>Jaws does run properly. This laptop is for £279.99 from PC World and
| >>>>>Currys.
| >>>>>
| >>>>>I'll let you know how the Jaws experiment went.
| >>>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Collins"
| >>>>><andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >>>>>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| >>>>>Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:46 PM
| >>>>>Subject: [access-uk] Ultra Mobile PCs
| >>>>>
| >>>>>
| >>>>>>Hi all -
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>>Will JFW run under the OS on UMPCs? I don't know anything about 
UMPCs,
| >>>>>>but
| >>>>>>they look to  be a more handy alternative to a laptop? I don't know
| what
| >>>>>>OS
| >>>>>>systems UMPCs use, so I'd be interested if anybody has any 
experience
| of
| >>>>>>using one, what kind of features they offer etc, but this of course 
is
| >>>>>>only
| >>>>>>relevant if JFW runs ok! -
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>>Andy
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