That's my problem, I find myself opting for the laptop more often than 
not.If I had to actually go out of the house to work every day or school it 
might be a different thing but I take classes online, I'm more comfortable 
on the computer keyboard now, really, That's exactly my problem. The BNS was 
cool because it was smaller and I liked carrying that around more then the 
pack mate which is kind of big, all told, I really rather carry around my 
laptop. It's bigger, but I can do more with it and I forget what I paid for 
the laptop, but it was less than $700, pack mate, I got with out the braille 
display, when I got it I forget what I paid but I think it was about $2000. 
When I pay it off next month, I'm going to give thought to maybe getting rid 
of it and grabbing another BNS for quick notes and stuff. Tomorrow I head 
out to the region EOC for nets, I'll bring the laptop. I just feel if I'm 
going to grab something bigger,I'd rather go for the laptop. I suppose for 
some notes I could use my phone too but I generally don't.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: braille notetaker or brailler


> Frankly, I think $2,395.00 is a bit much to pay for a Pacmate even though 
> it
> is designed for the blind, and that is only the basic package.  I mean you
> could get a pretty good lap top with Jaws for about half that especially
> since most of us have Jaws or some type of speech software anyway.
> Harvey
>