[senit] Re: [senco-forum] Danas banned in Europe

From: barbara <barbht at saqnet.co.uk>

The RM Asus miniBook (which is a rebadged version of the Asus Eee PC) does
look interesting but I see a few problems with it looking at the specs.

The biggest problem is that it is a closed Linux system and so no software
can be added to it other than what it is supplied with.  So no special needs
software.  

The battery life is only two hours.  One of the big advantages of the Dana
was the 24 hours of battery life which meant it was easy to get through the
school day without having to plug in to recharge.

Jamie

> From: barbara <barbht at saqnet.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:32:12 -0000
> To: 'Judith Stansfield' <stass at onyxnet.co.uk>,
> <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk.>, "'SENIT (SENIT)'"
> <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Danas banned in Europe
> 
> Interestingly enough RM -my unfavourite company responsible for 2 years of
> chaos in school whilst their network did not support our programmes ( a
> digression but I still feel very strongly about them ) - anyrate RM have
> just brought out an equivalent to alphasmart that is compatible with their
> system !!!!- have they got a hot line to Brussels says she in less than
> generous frame of mind  Barbara ht
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Judith
> Stansfield
> Sent: 09 November 2007 19:49
> To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk.; SENIT (SENIT)
> Subject: [senco-forum] Danas banned in Europe
> 
> 
> I don't know whether you are aware that it is now illegal to buy an
> Alphsmart Dana in the UK, as all the old stock has been sold. Someone in the
> EC in its PC-dom has decided that part of the production process does not
> measure up, so their sale is banned in  Europe - even though they are still
> OK to be sold in North America and most other parts of the world, it is not
> worth Alphasmarts while to change their production run for one area. The
> Dana, especially with the Don Johnston soundcard adaptation and inclusion of
> Write Outloud provided a really useful, robust, portable writing aid that
> provided a talking wordprocessor, that a dyslexic child could easily carry
> around school to use.  It is little short of a scandal, let alone an
> infringement of personal choice, that our children with SEN  are to be
> denied their use .
> In Dyslexia Awareness Week, I shall be using www.writetothem.com to raise
> this with my MP and MEP and hope that lots of you will spend a few minutes
> to do this as well Cheers Judith ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Judith Stansfield
> SEN ICT Consultant
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