[blindkid] apple netbooks

Lynda Zwinger lyndaz918 at gmail.com
Tue May 22 18:04:10 UTC 2012


Yes--amazon has a good, inexpensive one that is lightweight and works with
iPhone as well as iPad and laptop.
Lynda

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Dr. Denise M Robinson <deniserob at gmail.com
> wrote:

> If you go with an ipad, just get an external keyboard to go with it and a
> braille display. Both will make you whip along as a typer.
> Denise
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Lynda Zwinger <lyndaz918 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Holly--the only thing I can think of off-hand is that the word processing
> > options for iPad (I don't know about netbooks) are not up to speed for
> high
> > school, and maybe not even for middle school.  I hear "they" are working
> on
> > it....So for now, with an iPad you'd be confined to docs that you can
> make
> > with Pages or one of the other apps, which really can't compare to
> > Microsoft Word (actually, Microsoft Office).  And in our system, they
> start
> > with the PowerPoint presentations in middle school, so that's another
> issue
> > for you too maybe.
> >
> > I think you might be better off getting a Dell or some such laptop
> (cheap,
> > on-sale) and use it with the refreshable keyboard.  That's what we are
> > going to do I think for Isaac.  Once he gets over the "I don't know HOW
> it
> > got into the washing machine in mid-wash-cyle, Mom...." stage of
> > development.
> >
> > fwiw and ymmv and any other acronym I can't remember right now.....
> >
> > Lynda
> >
> > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Holly Baker Miller <hollym12 at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Still trying to figure things out for our situation.  New braille user,
> > > middle school, responsible & tech savy.  Has enough vision that jaws
> > > probably isn't going to be a necessity for him.  His issue is not so
> much
> > > with seeing but that he fatigues very quickly when reading visually.
> > >
> > > It seems as if buying a good netbook or ipad ($500) + bluetooth braille
> > > display ($2500) such as the Brailliant 32 would be about half the cost
> > of a
> > > note taker.
> > > Aside from the slight downside of having to carry two compact items,
> why
> > > does it seem like this is not a popular option for most?
> > >
> > > The pluses would be the netbook/ipad could be reasonably replaced every
> > 2-3
> > > years as the processors get faster & more powerful making it easier to
> > keep
> > > pace with technology.  Sounds like the maintenance plan on a notetaker
> > > costs that much.  Even if the display part punks out after a few
> years, a
> > > lot less painful to replace that than a full note taker.
> > >
> > > Are there other disadvantages I'm not aware of?  Is this something
> whose
> > > time has come but it just hasn't quite caught on yet?
> > > I won't be offended if there's something glaring I haven't thought of!
> > >
> > > Holly
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