[RWP] A really simple notebook for writing only

[Stephan Merk]

Hello,

I know also no Ultrabook with a numpad smaller than 15". The UX51VZ has it,
but approx.. 2.600-2.000 EUR...


Viele Grüße

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Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de


-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Perdue
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:31 AM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [RWP] A really simple notebook for writing only

I doubt you'll find anything smaller than a 15-inch notebook with a numpad.
I used to have an Acer Aspire 1 netbook, which had a boring 8GB SSD, 8.9
inch screen. The keyboard wasn't so great, and it definitely didn't have a
numpad, though it did have the virtual numpad which is now also getting
pretty hard to find in laptop keyboards. You could go the way of a Windows 8
tablet, like the Acer iconia i3w and a bluetooth keyboard (USB if you have a
micro to standard USB adapter,) though it isn't all that easy to find a
bluetooth keyboard with a numpad, either. 
Most are separate numpads that happen to come with the keyboard, and some of
them are completely useless for us, as every button press turns numlock on,
presses the key you requested, then turns numlock off again.
Or, just find an older, reasonably quiet laptop and replace it's hard drive
with a cheap SSD. I bought an OCZ Onyx a few years ago for my netbook, which
I have now given to my father. It was the smallest, slowest, cheapest thing
I could find at the time, a 32GB thing rated at 85MB/sec read, 75MB/sec
write, and it runs Windows 7 pretty good for an Atom 270 netbook. The fan
comes on occasionally, but you'll have that.

On 9/25/2013 1:21 PM, Indigo wrote:
> Is there a simple notebook with a comfortable keyboard, that has a 
> small flash drive instead of a whirring hard drive; and hopefully long 
> battery life?
> I once had a miserable little notebook with a puny Atom processer, 
> that definitely had a whirring hard drive, and got really hot at the 
> bottom, even though it was a pathetically underpowered thing.
> This time I'd like to try for one that could run some version of 
> windows that would support NVDA and Eloquence, but I don't care about 
> going online with it, or making music with it, just writing about 
> music, life, whatever, maybe blogging.
> I don't mind transferring files to another computer afterwards if the 
> word processing notebook is hassle free, totally quiet and cool running.
>
> I don't want a mobile device with touch screen.
> I currently use small slim short stroke Logitech keyboards that I find 
> comfortable, not the gigantic keyboards of the past, but definitely 
> not the ultra-cramped keyboards on some laptops either; where all keys 
> have equal spacing.
> I like a little space between F4 and F5, for instance, and a little 
> seperation between the arrow keys and the qwerty block of keys, and 
> need a numberPad separate from the qwerty keys Is there such a 
> creature these days?
> Thanks for any tips,
> Indi
>
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