Re: OT: Hard disk mirror with Paragon on USB stick?

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:41:44 -0800, Joerg
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Charlie E. wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:45:26 -0800, Joerg
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Charlie E. wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:30:21 -0800, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The audio is pretty crisp and easy to understand, certainly for
something like books on tape (or on data in this case). Remember that
this and most other netbooks do not have an internal CD/DVD drive. And I
haven't figured out yet whether it has a multi-card slot and if so, how
to open it.

The camera is standard. Could come in quite handy if you are gone and
she wants you to take a quick look at something.

Another advantage of this netbook in comparison to other budget machines
is the huge hard disk space. It has a 160GB drive which by default gets
partionioned into two 80GB sections. You can't have that with silicon
disks (yet). So your wife could store lots of stuff one there and then
listen to it out in the backyard or somewhere away from the screen
reader. From a nearly blind friend I remember those as rather big machines.

Nowadays, the screen reader is pure software, since the speech
synthesis software got good enough to be incorporated into the PC
directly. But, she does appreciate long battery life. While she does
most of her work at her desk, she does periodically take it out to
remote site, like when she volunteered at the local chamber of
commerce.

The large disc may really come in handy now. RFB&D has started
producing downloadable books, which means she could just put them on
the hard drive without needing a CDROM on USB.

Charlie
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