Patrick, I would not purchase a laptop without putting my hands on it, as I have found many laptops to have a good feel to them, i.e., the layout of the keys, and the other various buttons. Also, I have seen some laptops that can be operated with the lid down, and I have seen some that do not. I prefer to use a laptop sometimes with a standard keyboard, and if the lid is closed, you can strap the keyboard to the top. Also, as far as the floppy disk, most people have an external floppy drive. I'll bet that if it was a one time thing, like loading an authorization key, you could take your laptop into a computer store and they would hook one up and let you install the authorization key. Well, that is my thoughts, for whatever it is worth. Good luck finding what you want. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Turnage" <patrickt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 8:20 PM Subject: (no subject) Hi. My mom wanted me to do some shopping for notebooks for christmas. I have a hint that when I get home on december 20, she's going to ask me the best deal I found. She said no more than 1000 dollars. I have found the toshiba 1115-S103 from Bestbuy for 1099 with a 200 dollar rebate. The specifications look fine to me, except. It does not have a serial port or floppy disk drive. 1. How can I install jaws on a computer with no floppy disk drive? What are people doing to boot the system? Aside from bootible cdrom. 2. What would be the best way to have serial devices accessable to the system? I may want to install Linux so having the serial port workable with speakup is what I want. That is the only thing I use the serial port for.. My mom has placed a few requirements on me, like the machine has to be pickupable from a store.. So I'm at the murcy of their pricing... Thanks for the suggestions. sincerely, Patrick ----- Patrick Turnage E-mail: pturnage at tampabay.rr.com AOL Instant Messenger: kg4dqk Home Page: http://www.access-connect.com _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
