Thanks for the input from everyone. Turns out my daughter will give me her three year old Dell Inspiron next week since she has switched to a Mac for her work. I'll give the Dell a trial before checking out the other options you all suggested. Harry
-----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) via Jfw Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 1:29 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) Subject: RE: Good laptop? Ah, that good old IBM heritage. I presume they're still active behind the scenes. -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Marquette via Jfw Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 5:07 AM To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Cc: Ed Marquette Subject: RE: Good laptop? I have to second this. My law firm buys Lenovo laptops for all attorneys, and my own personal machines have all been Lenovo for at least a decade. So, I don't have much experience with other laptops, but I've never had problems with a Lenovo. My sons, both engineers, have had bad luck with HP and Del laptops. The important thing to look for (and this is not consistent among laptops, even laptops in the Lenovo line) is the presence (or availability) of an applications key and two insert keys. As between having an applications key and two insert keys, I'd go for an applications key -- unless you have a handy way, by dot or something, to locate the shift F-10 key. You know Shift F-10 doubles as an applications key which, itself, simulates a right mouse click. Also, I should clarify what I mean by two insert keys. I'm referring to both a caps lock key and an insert key that are simultaneously available as JAWS keys. There are some operations that, for clumsy me, just cannot be executed with the caps lock key functioning as a JAWS key -- at least not without gymnastics. So, the ideal set-up is to have the JAWS key available both through an insert key and a caps lock key and a separate applications key. That's not always possible, and you may need to get someone to mess around in the computer settings to get them. Take care. -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kimber Gardner via Jfw Sent: Friday, May 8, 2015 3:53 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Kimber Gardner Subject: Re: Good laptop? I've always had good luck with Lenovo laptops. On 5/7/15, Harry Spencer via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All. > > > > A few months ago someone recommended a laptop for use with JAWS. Of > corse at the time, I didn't need a laptop, and now I do. I believe the > cost was about $400. I'll be using Windows 7, JAWS 15 and Office 2010. > If someone could pass on the recommendation again, I would appreciate > it. > > > > Thanks. Harry > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachme nts/ > 20150507/b3e786d0/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Kimberly _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
