[blindkid] Student Laptop Options

[DrV]

Hi Bonnie,
He uses it mostly at home for now.
The BrailleNote is more efficient for him at school at this point.
The netbook is certainly small & is a little over 2 1/2 pounds.
Eric

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie Lucas" <lucas.bonnie at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 13:13
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Student Laptop Options


> Hi Eric, Does Vejas use the netbook that you got for him at school or does 
> the school supply something else?
> Bonnie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "DrV" <icdx at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:26 PM
> Subject: [blindkid] Student Laptop Options
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>> We bought my 7th grader a Toshiba netbook.
>>
>> It works well, is small & light. It is slower than my laptop, but gets 
>> the job done & is more portable & less expensive.
>>
>> It also has a really nice feature that many Toshiba laptops have that 
>> allows you to easily turn off the mouse pad completely by simply hitting 
>> Function + F9 -> that way you don't have to worry about the cursor 
>> accidently moving to some other part of the document or webpage when your 
>> finger, thumb, or sleeve brushes over the mouse pad.
>>
>> If for some reason I need to do something with the mouse, I can easily 
>> turn it on & off with eth same key strokes.
>>
>> Eric V
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