I understand this arguemnt, but could the mPower not handle advanced formatting, even if opening files takes a bit longer? After all, they already put an entire daisy reader on the thing, so is better Word support out of the question? Besides which, there are still a great many programs that could be written for the bn family, from games to unit converters to twitter to a better chat client and so on, which could run on any unit. Do they do anything like that? Nope. What a lot of people forget is that the mPower's processor is only about 100mhz slower than the apex. Yes, it has less ram and an older OS, but it could do more than what it does now. Joseph, jump in here with your hardware knowledge to set me straight if I am off.
On 2/17/12, Mike Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > you're overlooking something pretty big, how is the MPower and PK going > to handle a lot of what the apex has? Yeah, i don't agree with 8.1 > costing money, but do you really see hw brancing completely out, writing > features for the MPower and stuff, that will hardly run on it? you're > forgetting the limitations of the MPower, 8 nearly maxes out it's > hardware as it is. > On 2/16/2012 15:55, Alex Hall wrote: >> Hi all, >> I read the press release and talked with hw customer service. Here are >> the details of 8.1: >> * it is a paid upgrade; either one SMA count or $129 ($20 plus >> shipping if you order it already on an SD card) >> * the classic is not supported, as expected. The mPower and PK are >> both able to take advantage of the upgrade. >> * New features include the ability to read PDF documents in keyword or >> keybook, and the renaming of the "directory" item in the file manager >> to "browse". >> >> Yep, you read it right, and I double checked with hw: a paid upgrade >> that includes only *one* new feature. Of course, the press release >> pushed the trade-in program for mPower owners to switch to an apex, >> but all you mPower owners out there will be happy to know that you can >> now read PDFs. You will pay $129 for the feature, and get nothing else >> for your money, but go for it if you want to. >> >> Sorry if I sound negative, but this irks me. I keep hoping the >> upgrades with one or two features will turn around, but they never do. >> I think this is the smallest upgrade I have ever seen. Hw promised two >> upgrades for the mPower; I don't think any of us expected them to pull >> this trick, using one of these promised upgrades on just one feature. >> If they do this again, they will fulfill their obligation of two >> upgrades while actually giving mPower and PK users just two features, >> less then we got in each of the 7.x upgrades. Okay, rant over. >> > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
