get an AlphaSmart Neo word processor

My son Could not hear correctly until he was 18 months old. He is now 13 and still struggles with the basic reading,writing. We also almost lost him at two weeks old due to a high fever. He now has access to a Neo AlphaSmart and life has changed. But if he dosen’t get to room that loans them out he dosen’t get one. I would love to get him his own,but we just can’t afford it.

This goal can wait, or I will probably never even accomplish it. I have my sights set on a brand new laptop instead :)

I am now the sudden owner of a rather tempermental Dana Wireless.

Now to figure out the “wireless” part.

I’m making a promise to myself. If I finish NaNoWriMo this year at 50K or more, I am going to reward myself by buying one of these for myself. Its nice to splurge every once in a while, and hell, I will have deserved it! :)

I love my new Quickpad IR , but the newer AlphaSmart Neos are just too lovely. It’s everything that I want in a word processor. Laptops aren’t really my thing and if I were to get one, I’d probably only use it for writing. I’ve been hinting around to my friends and family that it would be so nice to receive the Dana as a Christmas present

I got my Neo in October 2004. I was a little nervous – I have never, ever in my life had a piece of electronic equipment (or heck, much else, really) that lived up to all I had heard about it.

Well, there’s a first time for everything. I have heard so many good things about AlphaSmarts, and about the Neo, and wow. It really is all of those good things. I got mine with the rechargeable battery, which I wasn’t sure about, but I figured since I could always change it out to regular batteries later, it was worth a try. The rechargeable battery has been a really positive thing, and I think if this one ever dies on me, I’ll just order another rechargable battery pack from the company. It stays charged for weeks for me, and I never have to remember to buy batteries.

The Neo is wonderful. I have memory problems and am an aspiring writer, so I use mine for keeping notes and doing my daily writing exercises (which haven’t been very daily lately. oops.) It’s really easy to use, the manual is easy to understand (not that you need it to get started right away), and I love that I can change the font size to what I like best.

There are just so many good things to say about it; if I wrote down all the things I like about the darned thing, this entry would be immensely long. So I’ll just say this: There isn’t a single thing I don’t like about my Neo, and I don’t think there’s a single thing I would change. It’s worth every single penny, and a whole lot more. I wouldn’t give mine up for the world.