[nabs-l] Questions About Getting New Laptop

[Jorge Paez]

Toshiba's the best Windows PC in my experience.
Sony's way over priced.



On Jun 19, 2011, at 10:12 PM, Humberto Avila wrote:

> 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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