Georgiana Brummell<p>I'm trying to figure out which is the best computer for my needs. I'm caught between three options. I want something very portable that's smaller than my Del Latitude 3120, and even than my Acer Aspire One D270! I would use all of these with an external keyboard. The MeLes can run off a power bank and needs speakers, while the Toughbook has its own battery and speakers. The MeLes have more usb ports, where as the Toughpad would require a usb hub (owned). Some of these come with more ram or storage. I tried to choose similar specifications when possible. All cost about $300, once you add in the power bank for the last two, though they may be on sale, due to Black Friday.</p><p>Panasonic Toughpad FZ-M1 MK3 with 7th generation Intel Core i5-7Y57 vPro processor with two cores and four Intel Hyper-Threads, 8GB of soldered DDR3L RAM, and a 128GB M.2 2280 SSD.</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DK7W87QG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">amazon.com/gp/product/B0DK7W87…</a></p><p>MeLE Mini PC Quieter 4C, 12th Gen Alder Lake-N100 - processor. Featuring 4 cores and 4 threads, with speeds of up to 3.4GHz, 8GB of LPDDR4x RAM (4266MHz) and 128GB of storage (128GB eMMC, M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 3940MB/s).<br>(Note: the m.2. is just a slot, not an installed drive, so it's empty, and I won't be taking things apart to install it)</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/MeLE-Mini-Quieter-4C-Astrophotography/dp/B0CP3Y2QHW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">amazon.com/MeLE-Mini-Quieter-4…</a></p><p>MeLE PC PCG02 Pro, with Quad-Core Alder Lake 12th N100, 8GB 4266MHz LPDDR4 ram, 128GB emmc storage and a Micro SD port that supports expanding up to 2TB.<br>(Note: I think this is for a micro sd card, which I can insert and use on my own)</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/MeLE-PCG02-Pro-Computer-Industrial/dp/B0CWV2WR72/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">amazon.com/MeLE-PCG02-Pro-Comp…</a></p><p>If I chose one of the last two, and wanted to use it with a power bank and not the regular cord, it would have to be this one, as no others are accessible to the blind.</p><p><a href="https://accessibility.energrid.us.com/collections/power-banks/products/energrid-vs820pd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">accessibility.energrid.us.com/…</a></p><p>These are the programmes I use.</p><p>screen reader: NVDA</p><p>Internet Browser: Supermium (modern fork of Chrome, works with XP through 11)</p><p>Text Editor: Notepad2 (11), Notepad (XP/7), with spell checker: Jarte (all)</p><p>Media Player MPCHC (all)</p><p>MP3 Recorder: Virtual Recorder v1.4.0.2 (all)</p><p>E-Mail Thunderbird (Legacy 102 (7/11) Icedove or Outlook Express (XP), considering Windows Live Mail (all)</p><p>Youtube: Accessible Youtube Downloader (11)</p><p>Friendica: site (all) TweeseCake, TWBlue (11)</p><p>Timer: Cook Timer (all)</p><p>Computer Cleaner: CCleaner 5.49 (XP) KCleaner (all)</p><p>Uninstaller: Revo Uninstaller (much older version, newer is not accessible) (all)</p><p>OCR/pdf converter: Openbook, Kurzweil 1000 (all)</p><p>Virtual machines: VMWare Player 6.0.4, VmWare Workstation 17 (11)</p><p><a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blind</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=powerbanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>powerbanks</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=tablets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tablets</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=virtualmachines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtualmachines</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Windows7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows7</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=WindowsXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsXP</span></a></p>