Hi Antoinette,
Thanks for the netbook discussion that motivated me to order one
today for our Bay Area ALSA demo/loan center. For Trish and
others who may be wondering about prices, I have them listed below from my
order. It all came to 429.00 including tax. Good price
considering that portable speech generating devices are over 4K. Two
of my clients with ALS are ordering Netbooks after trials with portable
devices. Both of these clients usually carry a laptop around anyway and
they did not want to carry two devices. I guess we all just wait and
see what the outcomes are. I hope people will share the pluses and
minuses their clients experience using netbooks.
I thought your suggestions for software were
great. You asked about any additional software
recommendations. I might add ShortKeys Lite http://shortkeys.com/lite.htm which
is a free abbreviation expansion software that you can use with
Etrilloquist. Also I might suggest going to NextUp.com for a good
quality voice for about $35.00. Thanks again and I
have the prices listed below.
Acer Aspire One
AOA150-1505 8.9-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB
Hard Drive, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery)
$329.99
Burnoaa Mini-Notebook
Premium Memory Foam Pouch Case with Front Pocket
$22.92 Laptop Speakers - USB,
Portable, Compact, Travel Speaker for PC and Mac - B-Flex 2 Hi-Fi Stereo
USB Speaker (White)"
$39.95 OR
"Genius SP--i200U USB Portable Digital Speakers for notebooks- Black" $23. Sincerely, Amy Roman, MS, CCC-SLP Augmentative Communication Specialist Forbes Norris ALS Research Center 2324 Sacramento Street San Francisco, CA 94115 P (415)600-1263 F (415)673-5184 CONFIDENTIAL OR PRIVILEGED: This communication contains information intended only for the use of the individuals to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from other disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any disclosure, printing, copying, distribution or use of the contents is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or by returning it by reply email and then permanently deleting the communicationfrom your system. Thank you. --- On Tue, 2/10/09, Antoinette Verdone <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Antoinette Verdone <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx> |