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[Josh Kennedy]

well I want him to be able to do schoolwork through 4th grade and beyond 
and sometimes on my old windows laptop he does go places he should not 
and gets viruses on it by accident. Yet he likes playing games that have 
good graphics but likes the size of the laptop screen. He's probably 
asking for grand theft auto and other such mature games because maybe 
other parents who don't give a care let their kids play it but I will 
not its rated m mature for a reason. and now that microsoft office is 
out for android I think an android fusion5 108 tablet with octacore 
processor 2gigs ram would be a good solution for both work and gaming. 
Plus there are games he tried to play on windows that crashed or just 
would not open for him. Seems like with android or iPhone stuff just 
works and if it doesn't the play store says its not compatible. And a 
good gaming tablet with octacore processor is far less expensive than a 
core i7 8gigs ram laptop for gaming. I could see that if I got him a 
full laptop that could run any game he'd be bothering me nonstop for GTA 
games. Plus he also says the laptops are too heavy he doesn't like 
carrying my old one that much and the tablet will let him read lots of 
books with the kindle app also. I think get him a bluetooth keyboard for 
when he has to use ms-office apps or google docs and he'll be good to go.



On 9/8/2016 10:04 PM, David Andrews via BlParent wrote:
> Well, Android tablets and Xboxes are good at different things, so I 
> doubt one will substitute for the other.  The latest Xbox does work a 
> little with Narrator, which would give you some access, but not the 
> same as full supervision.
>
> There is no magic answer here.
>
> Dave
>
> At 10:58 PM 9/7/2016, you wrote:
>> hi
>> I'm a new member well not exactly I was on this list about 10 years 
>> ago. But I may be new to some of you. Anyway my name is Josh Kennedy 
>> I live in a rural town in PA. I subscribed mainly because I have a 
>> question. My sighted son is 9 years old. He keeps asking for an xbox 
>> 1 or xbox 1s for Christmas. But they are expensive and I'm on SSI. 
>> Also my tv only has one HDMI connection and that is being used by the 
>> apple tv box. and I'd rather not spend nearly $600 for an xbox 1s and 
>> a new tv to put in his bedroom where he wouldn't be supervised as 
>> much. I'm totally blind by the way and use NVDA for my screen reader 
>> and will soon be using the orbit reader20 low cost braille display 
>> for braille input and output. You all can google search orbit 
>> reader20 if you want more info so anyway rather than getting him an 
>> xbox 1s and new tv and stuff besides I don't have the money for a new 
>> tv in my living room with 2 or more HDMI connectors at the moment and 
>> I won't for a good many months... So do you all think I should just 
>> get him a good android tablet? I found one with a 10.6 inch screen 
>> octa-core 8 processors and 2gigs of ram for $130. much more 
>> affordable for me. It's difficult to save money when only on SSI. I 
>> had to save 6 months and give up lots of stuff just to save up for 
>> the orbit reader 20 at $499 due out in october 2016. He keeps asking 
>> for M-rated games like GTA and the crew and stuff like that. So what 
>> do you all think. save up for xbox 1s, and new bigger tv or good 
>> nearly 11-inch much more affordable android tablet? also gotta save 
>> for the braigo low cost embosser supposed to be out next year so I 
>> can have as much braille as possible for his future school endeavors. 
>> next point is i figure if he wants a fancy xbox when he's older that 
>> may give him an incentive to get a job and get it himself. after all 
>> if I get him everything where's the incentive to eventually work for 
>> or save for what he wants to have just like i had to save for the 
>> orbit reader20 and will save for the low cost braigo embosser due out 
>> sometime in 2017?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Josh Kennedy
>>
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