Cathy, I agree, both about memory and hard drive space. The more memory you can get installed the better. My old laptop only had 512 of RAM, and the one I have now has 2 gigs, which was the maximum I could get in this laptop at the time. I can't even begin to tell you how much of a difference in performance I notice, especially with JAWS and Kurzweil 1000. My antivirus software seems to run better, too, and there isn't any sluggishness when I try and perform other tasks when it is scanning my computer. Audio file creation with Kurzweil is also a lot faster, and JAWS 6.0 also seemed to perform better. I've also heard people say over and over that if you are going to get Vista, you are better off with at least two gigs since Vista is such a memory hog.
Your hard drive should also probably be good-sized. I have a 160 gig hard drive which is enough only because a lot of our music is stored on an external network drive. Additionally, I create a lot of audio files with Kurzweil 1000 for use on CD's and my Victor Reader Stream (that I use in my dreams). Although I put the audio recording quality to medium, some of those files and folders (especially the folders containing books) can be fairly large. A 250 page book for instance can be about 80 meg. Erin > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Gouveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] memory and hard drive space >I also think that more memory is better, both in RAM and Hard Drive > capacity, especially with NLS going into the new digital download arena, > one > can fill up plenty of hard drive space, so I would imagine that 80 gigs is > not really a great deal any longer. > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > blind-computing@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
