The keyboard stopping has happened to me in my classes too. My
thumb-key was making a squeaky kind of noise earlier, and I agree
with Alex. If you can, stick with the MPOWER for now
until the apex has more promise.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hall <[email protected]
To: Danielle Montour <[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:41:41 -0400
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] current trde in values
It is true that the Apex has a lot of bugs, some rather serious.
For
example, I was taking a math quiz today when my keyboard stopped
working. This has happened before; I had to just sit there for a
minute and then, suddenly, I had my keyboard back. Throughout,
though,
the scroll wheel worked fine. Email is indeed slower, the daisy
player
is functional but lacks such basic features as saving your place
in a
file, you cannot use find and replace for fear of a lock-up,
linking
to web pages still sometimes causes a temporary freeze, the fm
radio
cannot be recorded, marking files does not work properly, copying
a
folder containing a daisy book does not work, there are still
major
problems pasting text into text files, html files cannot be
read...
and these are just what I have run into on a regular basis
(except for
keymail, which I refuse to use anymore ever since the keymail
database
on my mPower got corrupted and I lost all my email four separate
times). Oh, and my two inner thumb keys are starting to make odd
sounds and not work quite right if pressed in the wrong place.
All in
all, if you can live with an mPower, I recommend you do so until
the
bugs get worked out.
As to the mpower being phased out, this does make sense from a
business standpoint. It costs money to repair these units and to
get
parts for them, so if only a few users (relatively speaking)
eventually have the mpower, it becomes economically difficult to
stock
components for so few units. This is just my opinion; I had to
take
one economics class and I am still amazed I passed it at all.
<smile
On 9/30/10, Danielle Montour <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
I agree. Just cabbled HW to ask them a question and something
came up. As I figured, tech support is just about clueless
about
what's going on with the next version except for improved word
support. And yes, it is also true, that one thing tech support
does know is that in fact, only two more versions of
ks are coming out of the MPOWERS, then, like the cbbasic, they
can't expand anymorwh and will have to stop making software for
it. Tech support agreed that the MPOWER will become obsolete
and
will be fazed out. It's not a good piece of news for the MPOWER
users, and HW should drop the price of the apex a little because
more and more people will be forced to buy them in the near
future.
Danielle
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Lee <[email protected]
To: David Meador <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:11:13 -0700
Subject: re: [Braillenote] current trde in values
Hi,
That's what we (the experts) are finding as well. At this
point,
KeySoft 9.0 is essentially using KeySoft 8.0 code on top of a
newer framework which has not been fully explored yet. The
potential is there, but the level of functionality that an end
user would expect has not appeared yet as of this moment.
As of end of September, the short term future of Apex looks
grim;
the only hope we have left is at HW's hands. Now the big
problem
is this: would HW do something about price reductions that's
been
going on somewhere else?
Cheers,
Joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: David Meador <[email protected]
To: Danielle Montour <[email protected]>,
[email protected],[email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:06:52 -0500
Subject: re: [Braillenote] current trde in values
A sobering thought here:
Trade-in values sound fine, but I'm wondering how people really
feel about trading in a flawed unit in order to get another
flawed unit. The emails I've been seeing of late talk almost
exclusively about Apex limitations. It's got a terrible Daisy
Reader I hear today. It's web search capability does not
compare
with a PC. Many of the Techi's seem to be using PC's much more
than their Apex units. Joseph's key chats can only be accessed
from a PC, for example. And many say that the Apex is actually
slower than earlier models with regard to re-sets and in other
functions like keymail and keyweb.
Aside from the portability made possible by the braille keyboard
being small, what do we have to look forward to? I ask with all
respect to Humanware, which I suppose is greatly limited by its
relatively tiny and low-profit market.
David
Beyond Vision
Nashville, TN 615-385-0784
----- Original Message -----
From: Danielle Montour <[email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:10:16 -0400
Subject: re: [Braillenote] current trde in values
Hi,
Here are the trade in values for the bns.
MPOWER BT 32: $1,500 towards Apex
MPOWER BT 18: $1,000 towards Apex
MPOWER QT 32: 1,500 towards Apex
MPOWER QT: 1,000 18: towards Apex
Yes 32 cells can be traded in for 18 cell bn.
Just called HW and verified this.
Hope this helps
Danielle
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:22:12 -0400
Subject: [Braillenote] current trde in values
hey all,
does anyone know what the current trad in values are to upgrade
to an apex? I've tried contating HW but haven't gotten an answer
in over a week.
Also, can a 32 cell unit be trading for a 18 cell one?
thanks for any answers
Mike the star trek guy
Bnbt MPower running keysoft 7.5
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