I would try perhaps covering them with Chip tape just to see if that werked. It should be easily removed if it doesn't.
-----Original Message-----Chip From: heidi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 9:39 AM To: 'Johnny Angel!'; [email protected] Subject: RE: Laptop recommendations I would be interested I the answer to this as well as I am currently using my sighted husband's laptop as my computer died and I keep hitting them which sends me in to quick player which for some reason is incredibly hard to get out of. [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Angel! [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations Marvin, you wrote: "Many newer models have a few controls which are touch sensitive. My HP has a strip of these above the function keys. I'm careful to keep my fingers off of them because there's no easy way to determine what you're touching along that strip." Is there a way to mark points on this strip perhaps with little raised dots? If not, how about some way to disable or cover that strip. Thanks Johnny At 04:17 PM 12/31/2009, you wrote: >Hi. One thing you'll have to decide for yourself is how big and heavy >a laptop you want. HP has had a history of making models with full >keyboards which include the numpad on the right side. These are large >laptops which can be bulky to carry around. I actually have an HP >Pavilion Dv6-1247 which is one of these big laptops. The keyboard is >very nice. It also has really good sound for a laptop. It's running >64-bit Vista but the Windows 7 upgrade is included. I don't know if >this particular model is around now but the dv6 and dv7 series are >similar machines. HP is not the only company making full keyboard >laptops. Acer, Dell and Toshiba have also come out with models with >full keyboards. I do like my HP. It seems to be well built. One nice >feature they have is a button above the touchpad which turns it on and >off. This is nice because you don't have to remember a key combination >to do the job. Many newer models have a few controls which are touch >sensitive. My HP has a strip of these above the function keys. I'm >careful to keep my fingers off of them because there's no easy way to >determine what you're touching along that strip. > >One thing you will find with any machine is that there'll be a lot of >stuff loaded at startup. This was true for the HP and my Acer netbook >which I also like very much. Some useres have looked at Dell's Vostro >1720 which may also be a good idea because it's a business machine. My >desktop is a Dell Vostro so it was far easier for me to pick a much >less cluttered machine when I bought it. In any case, you'll find that >there'll be people who love each brand and some who hate it. I've seen >good things from HP, Dell, and IBM. There are a lot of nice machines >out there so you should be able to find one that fits your needs. > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnny Angel!" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:41 PM >Subject: Laptop recommendations > > >>Hello list, >> >>What works best with WE? >> >>Please be so kind as to let me know what you have decided on in a >>laptop. Please! I am not wishing to start any kind of debate, I'm >>mearly wanting to know what folks are personally settleing on in a >>laptop, not a netbook. Give me brand name and model number if you can. >>Specific additional specs like which processor, or how big of a hard >>drive you got is not important at this time. 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