Re: Lightweight Laptops...
- From: "PossAble Consultancy" <lister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:24:03 +0100
Hi Chip,
No, I'm afraid it's not as simple as that...
Multi Channel sound cards are, as I understand it, about the number of sound
channels that can be put out.
The True Duplex issue is about the genuine ability to record sound in at the
same time as putting sound out, a facility that is necessary if you want to
use Jaws with Dragon, a speech recognition programme.
As you may remember, there were early cards that faked multi channel sound
out, well enough for general use, but not much good for Jaws & another sound
source, and many sound cards currently can record and play, but not truly
simultaneously...
I'm told by the makers of J-Say that this is a requirement to run J-Say
effectively...
Barry G
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:06 PM
Subject: RE: Lightweight Laptops...
I think by "this duplex issue" you must mean multi-channel; all sound
cards produced for the past several years have been multi-channel, so no
worries there.
There's no doubt in my mind that if by "light-weight" you mean the
3-pound laptops, I'd look at the IBM Thinkpad X series, in particular
the latest X41. I got a chance to play with someone elses (I own an A
series Thinkpad which is much larger) and I found the keyboard roomy and
comfortable, while the weight was just amazing. It only has a 12 inch
screen (pretty typical for this size of laptop), so if you're partially
sighted, or you need to have others see the screen while you work, this
could be a problem.
Otherwise, with the centrino processor you'll get great performance and
great battery life.
It does not come with a floppy drive, so you'll need to purchase the
optional one (and that means an optional media slice/docking bay for the
drive, or perhaps buying a USB floppy will work)for the jaws key, buy
the dongle version, or ask FS what other options are available.
It may not come with XP/home, so this may mean that you'll need the
professional edition of JFW (no difference to you except the price :( ).
Hth,
Chip
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> Subject: Lightweight Laptops...
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> Hi Folks,
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> I'm about to update my laptop & wondered if anyone knows of a=20
> lightweight laptop, at least 2.2 GHz processor, that works OK=20
> with Jaws, and here's the real crunch, it needs to have a=20
> true Duplex sound card as I'm going to be using J-Say with it.
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> T&T, the makers of J-Say haven't yet come up with any=20
> suggestions, but I guess I need to start with the lightweight=20
> laptops that can cope with Jaws, then phone the=20
> dealers/manufacturers to try & find out about this Duplex issue!!
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> Any suggestions or observations will be very, very gratefully=20
> accepted!!
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> Barry G
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> From: "Alan D. Katell, Ph.D." <katell@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:59 PM
> Subject: Backup Exec 9.0 with JFW
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> Hi listers,
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> I run a LAN in my office at work, and use Backup Exec 8.6 by=20
> Veritas to
> back it up to a dedicated hard drive on the server. Our I T guy wants
> to upgrade all the servers in the building to version 9.0. =20
> Does anyone
> know how accessible the newer version is with JFW? Any special
> configuring needed to use it?
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> Thanks,
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> Alan
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