Hey Scott, Sure, but keep in mind, I may not be your typical user. I don't really want a full-fledged notetaker, but I do want something that's more than a dumb terminal.
I'm using a Baum VarioUltra, and I love, love, love it!!!!! I have it paired with my Mac and my iPhone, and a cool thing about this display is that you can use it with both simultaneously. The unit is extremely thin and light, can easily be tossed in a suitcase, and it's easy to carry around, even with a purse and/or my Mac.. The top is brushed metal, which I much prefer over plastic. The keys are small and very quiet. The braille is nice and crisp. When I'm not using it with my phone or Mac, I primarily use the word processor for reading books. Remember, I'm a heavy braille user going back to first grade, so I'd much rather read a book or a document than listen to it. The VU also has a PDF viewer, which has come in very handy. The VU is a bit more complicated to operate than other displays I have used, but obviously that would not be a problem for you. The only real drawback to the VU is that it's battery life is significantly shorter than other displays, I charge mine daily. One thing I didn't like about the Humanware notetaker was that it seemed to assume that all users were 80-year-old grandmothers who'd never touched technology in their lives. So everything was very dumbed down, and set up so that you really couldn't screw anything up. That is not the case for the VU, if anything I might not recommend it to someone who isn't pretty comfortable with technology. >From what I've seen the FS braille displays aren't bad, but they're just >displays. Since I want something a bit more comprehensive than that, it >wouldn't meet my needs. So, that's my $.02 on braille displays. This topic has come up on lists before, and people's preferences are pretty subjective and vary widely. If you ever get the chance, you might want to go to the CSUN conference in San Diego every March. It's a nice opportunity because all the vendors are there, so you can actually give different braille displays a test drive and see what you like best. Cheers, Donna > On May 13, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Scott <sc...@qualityip.net> wrote: > > Donna, would you mind detailing what you like in a braille display find > interesting and what your favorite is? I have one of the freedom scientific > models and It’s ok under winders, not great on the Mac, good on IOS but not > life changing or at least not as life changing as I thought it would be. > What am I missing? > > :) > >> On May 12, 2016, at 8:22 PM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com >> <mailto:doniado...@me.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> It's incredibly nice to see that Apple is doing this at all. However it >> looks like the only braille displays they carry our humanware. In my view, >> that's a serious limitation, humanware and freedom scientific being the >> least interesting braille displays on the market. No offense to you >> humanware fans. 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