- Which is fine. It's pretty clear that Mary is looking for portability from what she said herself, hence my reply included, "Were you not looking for increased portability." I haven't seen many

mIRC and irssi.

Well, I think it is a matter of prospective.My brand new machine had a 15 and 17 version, and I went with 17, because of a larger keyboard, and mainly because of much improved cooling. I

- Absolutely. And keep repeating this as often as necessary. I have to have this particular discussion, again and again, in regard to WiFi in particular. People rushing out to by the latest and

Hello listers, I have a couple of questions regarding apple devices, iPads in particular. First, what is the most recent version of the regular iPad. Second, I realize that people will have

The only time it is not faster is when you have an SSD and a mechanical drive in the same system, and if you are not running a relatively new SSD on a relatively new SATA interface, like in the past

What are you using for an accessible IRC client?

- And I don't know how anyone could dispute that, as a general statement. I've made it many times myself. Only a given individual can determine what's "zippy enough" for them. But if I were looking

Mary, Were you not looking for increased portability I'd tell you to definitely try a simple drive upgrade first. But I know what you mean about some of the larger laptops, particularly

nothing less than an I5 if I have anything to say about it. I tried using a friends i3 machine when I didn't have a laptop for a bit and it was so painful. 8 gb is fine on a basic machine but 16 or

I'm not disputing that. I'm saying that for many users, they may not particularly care. They may like the faster operation when they get a new machine or if they copy lots of large files, they may

Brian, this is one of the reasons I'd want to replace my laptop. It has a mechanical drive and I guess you could say I've been spoiled now that I have an ssd in my main system. Not only that but the

- Gene, I'll simply say that there is no question about the speed improvement, as in that the end user experiences, when using an SSD versus an HDD, and the bigger the HDD you're used to, the slower

Yeah. I'm running here on an I-5 quad core with 8gb. I'd consider this a mid range machine and it's doing ok for normal use. My power machine is currently out of commission until I can fix it. I've

I may comment further but I'll wait to see what others say. Gene

By the way, this same issue has been raised on the NVDA group, and there are now a number of replies saying, "I'm not having that issue." So, I'll say here what I said there . . . As a general

they do have a screen reader and speech, but it is very very poor, go with an Amazon fire TV instead such as a Toshiba or an insignia TV with the Amazon fire OS to the Roku TV speech sounds very

That is why I say i3 processors should be avoided, and the minimum lowest one should go down to for regular use should be an i5. Though a higher processor offers more benefits if one wants

Enes, We agree that not going for "the lowest of the low" or even "the lower end" is generally not a good idea. My central point is that mid-range processors produced over the past 5 years

Elaine, Would you please share the method you're using? Others will be interested. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041 Always remember that computers are