[nabs-l] Questions About Getting New Laptop

[Humberto Avila]

Hello Kerry,

I'm also in the  process of getting a new laptop. What I've heard is the
laptops that have i7 processors are even better and much more powerful,
battery-lasting, and ram-lasting than the i3 ones. I would recommend getting
an i7 processor one and probably from brands such as Asus, dell, or sony.
Toshiba is a fabulous machine also. 
So if you could lookup i7 laptops tat would be great. Looks like my laptop
that I will get (along with a college scholarship) will be an Asus-Laptop /
IntelR core i7 processor / 720 gb of hard drive / 8 gb ram / 17.3 display
(which does not matter to me as well).
On the Mac side, I don't really know if you can compare a Mac with windows,
one reason is that I haven't used a Mac ever since I begun to use a computer
and the other one is that windows I think, is better in terms of software
and hardware -- at least this is my opinion.

But look around -- research the internet and check them out. good web sites
for this are: www.bestBuy.com,  www.sears.com and http://www.amazon.com


-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Kerri Kosten
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 4:55 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Questions About Getting New Laptop

Hi Everyone!

Well, after five years, it looks like I am going to have to get a new
laptop.

I haven't had to look for a laptop in like five years so I had some
questions.

First, from an accessibility/screenreader standpoint what is better
windows or Mac? Was the switch to mac from windows hard? Was voiceover
easy to get used to? Do you like your mac better than windows? I've
been told macs don't get viruses or have spyware and they seem a lot
more durable. I have a friend who says he has had one for three years
(he isn't blind) and he says other than spending some money on a
bigger hard drive and paying $25 for one of the new OS updates (I
believe it was snow lepoard) he said it works just as fast and
everything as it did the day he got it. It seems with windows the life
is only around four or five years old. Sighted people are telling me
to go with mac but I know the world is still largely dominated by
windows.

For windows users who have purchased laptops recently what things did
you look for in the laptop? What brands are people using with the
windows screenreaders? I found a Tasheba satellite on Amazon.com for
$479...it is usually $780 but has been on sale for $479. It has an I3
processor, 4 gigs of ram, 640 gig hard drive, and a 15 inch screen not
that that matters to me. Supposedly the battery lasts for five hours.
I was going to just go with this one but i noticed it is rated 3
starrs on the customer reviews and I wonder why it has dropped so much
in price on Amazon. is anyone else using a tasheba and are they good?
What things did you look for in you're laptop before purchasing it?

The laptop I will likely get has Windows 7 and is 64 BIT. Is there any
big bugs I should know about with 64 BIT, Windows 7, and Jaws? Do you
like windows 7 overall? Is it better than windows vista? My old hp
laptop had windows vista on it and my netbook (which I am typing this
on) has windows XP.

Even if Rehab or some other source purchased your laptop, I am
noticing most of the new ones have similar specks:Windows 7, a 500 gig
or bigger hard drive, I 3 and up processor, 4 gigs of ram. How fast
are these? My laptop is so old I'm kind of excited and curious to hear
about how fast the latest laptops with these new and improved specks
are.

Thanks!
Kerri

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