Hi.
You're referring to the out of box OOB setup experience. As you
said, some systems could present other prompts before OOBE
appears. We don't know if Lenovo may have changed their habits
recently, or specifically for the system you're looking at, not to
mention we don't know just which system you're considering. That
said, My Lenovo Yoga 2 pro went perfectly fine through the out of
box setup experience. It's generic windows with lots of universal
lenovo apps. To be fare, This came with windows 8.1, so my
experience may differ. I really expect that you'll be just fine
though. If not, you could use be my eyes on that iPhone to most
likely get far enough along to start Narrator.
Side note. I'm a Lenovo fan. My yoga 2 pro is really nice. I have
30000 hours of runtime on it. Which exact model are you
considering?
Cheers:
Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com"
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On 4/15/2018 5:51 PM, Lisa P Geibel
wrote:
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Hi,
Forgive me for this post looking like it does, but I have to
do email with my iPhone and I'm not as good with that as I am
with the computer. Ours just died tis morning and we're going to
try to get a new one as soon as we can. We're currently looking
at a Lenovo, but this will be the first computer my husband and
I have bought solo and are going to try to set it up with little
to no sighted assistance as that would cost more. I know it can
and has been done by other blind people, but I don't know if
this particular brand has been done. Should this be doable using
Narrarator then NVDA or do these computers have some sort of
funky screen that must be gotten through by a sighted person
like a few years ago with some? It will have Windows 10 on it if
that helps any? Thanks for any help and wish us luck. We're
thinking of getting it from Best Buy.
Sent from Lisa's iPhone6
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:30 am, Gene wrote:
I don't use IMAP so I can't compare. But
without more information, the assumption that everyone
should use IMAP shouldn't be made.
Yes, Gene, it can be made if one is setting up a new
account. There is absolutely no advantage of POP unless
you have constant need to access very old e-mail messages
and are very frequently not connected to the internet. And
that's whether or not one is using multiple devices or not.
IMAP keeps all messages, and folders you may create for
categorizing them, on the e-mail server and I don't know of
a single data center that doesn't have far better backup
plans than any individual could have. This also saves the
nightmare of having to export and import e-mail messages if
one changes computers or adds another computer or mobile
device from which one now wishes to access mail.
Even if one is setting up one's existing account, that has
been using POP, it's better to set it up as IMAP in the new
e-mail client and transfer all of your existing mail over to
the server using your current client to do so. It's all
well documented in this article:
https://www.msoutlook.info/question/634
IMAP has come to supplant POP almost entirely, and for good
reasons. I would never suggest setting up a new account as
POP because most people these days do want to have the
ability to access the same account or accounts from multiple
devices and, even if they don't, the convenience of being
able to abandon one e-mail client for another and just set
up their account in another and everything is
"automagically" there.
--
Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version
1709, Build 16299 (dot level on request - it changes too
often to keep in signature)
The opposite of a
correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
~ Niels
Bohr
