Georgiana Brummell on Nostr: I'm trying to figure out which is the best computer for my needs. I'm caught between ...
I'm trying to figure out which is the best computer for my needs. I'm caught between three options. I want something very portable that's smaller than my Del Latitude 3120, and even than my Acer Aspire One D270! I would use all of these with an external keyboard. The MeLes can run off a power bank and needs speakers, while the Toughbook has its own battery and speakers. The MeLes have more usb ports, where as the Toughpad would require a usb hub (owned). Some of these come with more ram or storage. I tried to choose similar specifications when possible. All cost about $300, once you add in the power bank for the last two, though they may be on sale, due to Black Friday.
Panasonic Toughpad FZ-M1 MK3 with 7th generation Intel Core i5-7Y57 vPro processor with two cores and four Intel Hyper-Threads, 8GB of soldered DDR3L RAM, and a 128GB M.2 2280 SSD.
amazon.com/gp/product/B0DK7W87…
MeLE Mini PC Quieter 4C, 12th Gen Alder Lake-N100 - processor. Featuring 4 cores and 4 threads, with speeds of up to 3.4GHz, 8GB of LPDDR4x RAM (4266MHz) and 128GB of storage (128GB eMMC, M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 3940MB/s).
(Note: the m.2. is just a slot, not an installed drive, so it's empty, and I won't be taking things apart to install it)
amazon.com/MeLE-Mini-Quieter-4…
MeLE PC PCG02 Pro, with Quad-Core Alder Lake 12th N100, 8GB 4266MHz LPDDR4 ram, 128GB emmc storage and a Micro SD port that supports expanding up to 2TB.
(Note: I think this is for a micro sd card, which I can insert and use on my own)
amazon.com/MeLE-PCG02-Pro-Comp…
If I chose one of the last two, and wanted to use it with a power bank and not the regular cord, it would have to be this one, as no others are accessible to the blind.
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These are the programmes I use.
screen reader: NVDA
Internet Browser: Supermium (modern fork of Chrome, works with XP through 11)
Text Editor: Notepad2 (11), Notepad (XP/7), with spell checker: Jarte (all)
Media Player MPCHC (all)
MP3 Recorder: Virtual Recorder v1.4.0.2 (all)
E-Mail Thunderbird (Legacy 102 (7/11) Icedove or Outlook Express (XP), considering Windows Live Mail (all)
Youtube: Accessible Youtube Downloader (11)
Friendica: site (all) TweeseCake, TWBlue (11)
Timer: Cook Timer (all)
Computer Cleaner: CCleaner 5.49 (XP) KCleaner (all)
Uninstaller: Revo Uninstaller (much older version, newer is not accessible) (all)
OCR/pdf converter: Openbook, Kurzweil 1000 (all)
Virtual machines: VMWare Player 6.0.4, VmWare Workstation 17 (11)
#accessibility #blind #computers #powerbanks #tablets #technology #virtualmachines #Windows7 #Windows11 #WindowsXP
Panasonic Toughpad FZ-M1 MK3 with 7th generation Intel Core i5-7Y57 vPro processor with two cores and four Intel Hyper-Threads, 8GB of soldered DDR3L RAM, and a 128GB M.2 2280 SSD.
amazon.com/gp/product/B0DK7W87…
MeLE Mini PC Quieter 4C, 12th Gen Alder Lake-N100 - processor. Featuring 4 cores and 4 threads, with speeds of up to 3.4GHz, 8GB of LPDDR4x RAM (4266MHz) and 128GB of storage (128GB eMMC, M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 3940MB/s).
(Note: the m.2. is just a slot, not an installed drive, so it's empty, and I won't be taking things apart to install it)
amazon.com/MeLE-Mini-Quieter-4…
MeLE PC PCG02 Pro, with Quad-Core Alder Lake 12th N100, 8GB 4266MHz LPDDR4 ram, 128GB emmc storage and a Micro SD port that supports expanding up to 2TB.
(Note: I think this is for a micro sd card, which I can insert and use on my own)
amazon.com/MeLE-PCG02-Pro-Comp…
If I chose one of the last two, and wanted to use it with a power bank and not the regular cord, it would have to be this one, as no others are accessible to the blind.
accessibility.energrid.us.com/…
These are the programmes I use.
screen reader: NVDA
Internet Browser: Supermium (modern fork of Chrome, works with XP through 11)
Text Editor: Notepad2 (11), Notepad (XP/7), with spell checker: Jarte (all)
Media Player MPCHC (all)
MP3 Recorder: Virtual Recorder v1.4.0.2 (all)
E-Mail Thunderbird (Legacy 102 (7/11) Icedove or Outlook Express (XP), considering Windows Live Mail (all)
Youtube: Accessible Youtube Downloader (11)
Friendica: site (all) TweeseCake, TWBlue (11)
Timer: Cook Timer (all)
Computer Cleaner: CCleaner 5.49 (XP) KCleaner (all)
Uninstaller: Revo Uninstaller (much older version, newer is not accessible) (all)
OCR/pdf converter: Openbook, Kurzweil 1000 (all)
Virtual machines: VMWare Player 6.0.4, VmWare Workstation 17 (11)
#accessibility #blind #computers #powerbanks #tablets #technology #virtualmachines #Windows7 #Windows11 #WindowsXP