I couldn't agree more about the Brailliant from HumanWare. You can upgrade the firmware yourself, and the advance bars aren't made of rubber like my old Seika4 from Perkins. Can't say enough about the Brailliant.
Juliette On Aug 1, 2013, at 9:51 AM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: > Hi, It does work, but if I were you I would go back to your funder and > request something else. I teach the bc640 and it's the bain of my existence. > The dots fail all over the place and the support is abominable. Some of my > resellers won't even sell it because the cost to support it isn't worth the > markup. > > Now I'll have probably offended some users who have a bc640 and love it, and > haven't had their one unit fail, but After seeing 10 or 15 of them in the > last 3 years with about %50 attrition, I can't keep on recommending them. > Especially with the braille edge and the brailliant BI available. Even a > focus blue would be better than an alva. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the > ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2013-08-01, at 10:38 AM, Cait and Maggie <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Buddy. >> I just had a vender here try and tell me it doesn't. I just got funding for >> one, so just wanted to check. >> Cait >> >> On 2013-08-01, at 10:36 AM, Buddy Brannan <bu...@brannan.name> wrote: >> >>> It sure does. >>> -- >>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA >>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY >>> >>> >>> >>> On Aug 1, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Cait and Maggie <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Does anybody know if the alva bc640 works with the mac? >>>> Thanks, >>>> Caitlyn >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
