RE: Laptop compatibility

From: Chip Orange <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:08:49 -0500
I don't believe there are any issues for a laptop per say, only which OS
it may come with, as you already have mentioned.
 
For some reason, it's very hard to get a laptop with XP/home installed,
and for some other incomprehensible reason, Freedom Scientific charges
more for any version of JFW other than the one which works with XP/home.
 
There's no question, I'd switch to Window Eyes if I had to buy another
screen reader.  But if you don't, I just helped a friend by a Lenovo
laptop from Office Depot, and it came with XP/home installed, and JAWS 8
ran fine on it.  It was a very nice laptop, with a very nice keyboard
feel, and was only $600.  With a dual core CPU, it was very responsive,
and had 5 hours of battery life with the usual accessories (512 MB RAM,
CD burner/DVD player).
 
Lenovo used to be sold as Thinkpad.
 
 
 
HTH,
 
Chip
 
 
 




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Florida Public Service Commission

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        From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Peter Holdstock
        Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 3:14 AM
        To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: 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 <mailto:kenargo@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
                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
RE: Laptop compatibility

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