Actually, a laptop is usually a better notetaker than anything that these money-hungry companies are offering. A simple braille 'n speak is $1395. I psid $809 for a fairly laptop and put linux on it using speakup when I want to use hardware speech, and yasr when I don't want to carry around my dectalk. And I am getting $200 more off that. In my opinion, notetakers for the blind are greately overpriced, and laptops that run Linux are a much more cost-effective choice. Lorenzo Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. -- Craig E. Groeschel David Poehlman staggered into view and mumbled: > you cannot install linux on it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darragh" <darraghoheiligh at eircom.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:42 AM > Subject: RE: Linux note taker > > > If they weren't so expensive, I'd love to try messing around with a Pac Mate > from Freedom Scientific to see how viable it would be to install Linux onto > it. > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On > Behalf Of Angelo Sonnesso > Sent: 23 April 2003 14:22 > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: linux notetaker > > > Does anyone know about notetakers for Linux? > How about pocket devices? > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
