[gui-talk] Daydreaming about PC laptops. Any comments?

[Tai Blas]

But there are netbooks like the Samsung N110 which have keyboards that
are 95 percent of regular size so not all have shrunken keyboards.
Tai
 

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On Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 9:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Daydreaming about PC laptops. Any comments?

A Net Book by definition is stripped down.  They have a smaller keyboard
and screen than virtually all laptops.  They have less memory, usually
one gigabyte, no cd-rom or floppy drive, usually no serial or parallel
ports, no slots for expansion etc.  Most of them use a 1.6 GHz Atom
processor which is less powerful than standard Intel processors.
Granted, they do enough for most people, but you get what you pay for.
They reach that $300 to $500 price by leaving stuff out!

Dave

At 01:27 PM 8/15/2009, you wrote:
>While net books can be stripped down to that degree they're not that 
>way any more.  When they made their first splashes this is how they
were promoted.
>
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>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>On Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:21 AM
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>Chris G.
>I thought a netbook was a device with keyboard and monitor that has 
>almost no internal workings of its own except what's necessary for it 
>to connect with the Intent and there find all its applications, from 
>email to word processing to , of course, Web browsing. This is not so?
Are you quite sure?
>
>where are you getting your information about this? Thank you very much.
>infjo
>use everything
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>From: "Chris G" <chris at mysticplace.org>
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>Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 12:36 AM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Daydreaming about PC laptops. Any comments?
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>
>Hi,
>
>A netbook is a real computer that has a real operating system and a 
>real hard drive.
>they are smaller then your conventional laptops.
>
>
>
>
>On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:02:35 -0700
>"Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
> > Sherri,
> >
> > That isn't a complete small computer. it's another type of product 
> > entirely.
> > I want a real computer with a hard drive on which I keep my own 
> > applications and files. Not a cloud computer. apples and oranges. 
> > Thanks, though.
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> > From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Daydreaming about PC laptops. Any comments?
> >
> >
> > Seems to me the way to go is the Netbook, though I do not own one. I

> > am using a Del Latitude laptop (not sure of model number) and though

> > the keyboard is flat, the keys are pretty large and I am getting 
> > used to using the computer. I have this computer, because the 
> > Florida Division of Blind Services graciously bought it for me and 
> > at that time, I did not know much about Netbooks. I like the
Latitude, because it is light, but very sturdy.
> > My daughter who is sighted and now a brand new Mac user says the 
> > layout of the computer and the way the display looks is very 
> > "industrial", whatever that means. HTH.
> > Sherri
> >
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