Re: Microsoft OneNote and eBay listings

  • From: "Robbie Miller" <MillerRobbie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:57:30 -0500

Hello:

I had been looking for a portable keyboard for my Asus 1005 HA netbook. I 
orderd the Microsoft 6000 bluetooth keyboard after reading your post. I also 
read the reviews, and I believe this keyboard is what I was looking for. 

Best regards,
Robbie

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sieghard Weitzel 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:55 AM
  Subject: Microsoft OneNote and eBay listings


  Hi, I have two questions which are quite unrelated:

   

  1.       Is anybody using the OneNote application which is part of some of 
the Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 suites. I just installed Office 2010 
Professional on a Windows 7 Professional machine and I am using the latest 
version of Jaws 11. I have a business and really like what one can do with 
OneNote especially regarding the ability of several people to share 
(add/edit/update) notes and to have them sync between multiple computers via 
the clouds. Unfortunately, the application could probably be made a lot more 
accessible than it is out of the box. I called FS Tech Support this morning and 
was told that at this point they didn't seem to be working on anything related 
to this.

   

   

  2.       Is anybody aware of an easy and accessible way to list items on 
eBay? I just downloaded the Turbo Lister application, but it's also quite 
complicated and some areas are less than easy to use and in fact probably 
downright inaccessible. I'll get some sighted help to check it out further, but 
if somebody knows of something simpler out there I'd appreciate the information.

   

  To conclude here is my long story on purchasing a computer. I hope Will may 
find some useful thoughts in this.

   

  First, I definitely recommend the Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional 
platform and agree that it would be best to go with the 64 Bit version with 4 
Gb of RAM (8 Gb if you want to spend the money).

   

  My advice is that unless you really need a laptop to take to lectures, the 
library, study groups etc. do yourself a favor and get a desktop. If you want 
something portable, get a basic desktop and then spend $400 on an Asus Netbook. 
I completely disagree with the estimate of $1,800 somebody mentioned (no 
offense) for a good desktop. I run a retail business with a Windows 2003 Small 
Business Server and 5 workstations throughout the store and also have a desktop 
at home. I feel that without counting a screen, printer, scanner etc. there is 
no need to spend more than $1,000 including Windows 7. Most of my systems run 
around $600 to $700 Canadian without operating system and I could see myself 
spending $200 more if I wanted something with a faster processor and more RAM. 
I am not a fan at all of desktops of any particular brand and much prefer a 
clone. Get a $150 to $180 Intel motherboard with onboard video, ask the store 
to put an I5 2.8 GHz processor on it (about $240 Canadian) and 4 or 8 Gb of 
good RAM. Then have them put this into a $89 case with a good power supply, add 
a 500 Gb hard drive (I had really good luck with Seagate and that size will 
cost you about $60) and a $40 DVD burner and you are done and I guaranty you 
won't have any issues with Jaws and the video. I would recommend an external 
hard drive rather than having tons of storage in the system and as for good 
backups, go and spend $60 or whatever it is a year for a subscription to 
Carbonite or Mozy Home remote backup. Your data will be backed up each evening 
(if the machine is on) and you never have to do anything and can forget about 
it.

   

  As for a portable solution, I sold my $1,500 laptop last year and this spring 
went and bought a $400 Asus Netbook (Model 1005PE with an N450 Processor and a 
250 Gb hard drive). I spend $55 extra to upgrade it from 1 Gb to 2 Gb of RAM 
and invested $89 for a Microsoft 6000 Bluetooth Keyboard with separate 
Bluetooth numeric pad which is an excellent solution for Jaws users like me who 
hate to use the Laptop keyboard layout. I did upgrade the Windows 7 Starter OS 
to Windows 7 Professional because I need to be able to remote desktop into my 
server, but I really like this little machine and in total that still only cost 
me $600. I get 12 hours of battery life and that alone for me makes a laptop 
with 2-3 hours a joke. With the Netbook going to sleep in between me using it 
for a few hours here, half an hour there I can go for 2 days without having to 
recharge this thing. The built-in speakers are loud and of surprisingly good 
quality. Buy that and a decent desktop and you are in business for $1,500 and 
I'm talking about Canadian dollars, in the States I would say $1,300 to $1,400 
should do the trick. I've been a computer and Jaws user since 1989 and have 
purchased a lot of computers since that first 386 with a 70 Megabyte hard drive 
running DOS 4.01 and Jaws 1.1 and nowadays there really isn't much need for 
$2,000 or even $1,500 desktops or laptops if all you do is run some Office 
applications, browse the web, do music etc.

   

  Good luck,

  Sieghard from British Columbia, Canada.

   



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