Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-09 Thread Eric Oyen
hehe, now if the blindness specific vendors would just get the message. -Eric On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Joshua Loya wrote: > I tend to agree with Scott. An iPad, with a Bluetooth keyboard is much less > expensive than a blindness specific note taker, and Mike Calvo reviewed a > particularly

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-09 Thread Joshua Loya
I tend to agree with Scott. An iPad, with a Bluetooth keyboard is much less expensive than a blindness specific note taker, and Mike Calvo reviewed a particularly nice case on a recent Serotek Podcast. An iPad may mostly be a media consumption device for our sighted counterparts, but, with the

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Scott and all, I agree with you to some extent. I know what you mean but I can't be without my Braille display. I know what you mean about the price of access technology. BUt I just love my Braillino so much but more for it's display and ease of use of notes on the fly. But this can also be

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread Scott Granados
Honestly, thisis my own personal take and I hope I don't offend anyne but I don't like a lot of things about blind notakers so I tend towards the off the shelf. Being so grossly over charged for a device which is basically a mid 1990S pocket PC or at best a dead windows mobile platform

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread heather kd5cbl
I also have a braillenote and I like my mac as well. I was so happy when I got it, I was speechless after I set it up with no sighted assistance. I have not obtained my I phone as sprint is taking it's sweet time of getting I phones. I cant wait to get rid of my q9c. My plan is up in dec so

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi Marlaina, I have enjoyed reading your views. I am in your camp I believe as I still use the Braillino's note taking capability at work just because if I need to take down dictation fast, I'm much quicker typing in Braille than I am at the computer keyboard. I can type pretty quickly on the k

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread Donna Goodin
I like the notetakers because they give you a one-piece unit with braille. I'm a voracious reader, and I'd always rather read myself than hear a book read out loud, so for me a notetaker serves a real purpose. I find having two different pieces cumbersome when you're reading while traveling a

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Well, if I hooked up my apex to the Air, I'd be dealing with 2 separate devices. And when I am quickly needing to find an item in a list of 80 items so I can edit it on the fly during a live event like our convention, I need speed and absolute accuracy. With the apex, my fingers are all on one

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi everyone, I thought I'd chime in here. Having used the BrailleNote, BT32, Pacmate, and now Braillino I have to say if I were going to college now, what I would use is the Iphone for notes or my Macbook combined with the Braillino as a Braille display. I hope the Braillino will be supported

Re: blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I have used a pacmate too, I hate it, it is heavy. But I am so happy to use my IPhone/Ipod together with my focus 40 blue braille display. I also use my braille display on my mac computer, it really works great. Best regards Annie. On Nov 8, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Chenelle Hancock wrote: > I ha

blind note takers vs the mack book family products:Hi mary and marlana,

2010-11-08 Thread Chenelle Hancock
I have to say having used both blind note takers and the mb pro/ the i-phone 3gs. I have found the mb family of products to be much more accessible to me as a vi person then the blind note takers. I still also have my original qx 400 pac mate and let me tell you!. I cannot stand that damn not