It finally arrived!

The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a laptop
I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white keyboard. Looks
pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering the aquisition as a
second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel the need.

Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says you
can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office 365 which
is not cheap.

Android99 wrote:
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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says
you can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office
365 which is not cheap.

My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either
the pound sterling or dollar key with it.

Ed

On 06/03/2015 23:46, Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel the
need.

209Euros. So they should be £150, but actually they are £180. I wonder
why that is. It's 20% more.

tim w

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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if
Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel
the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says
you can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office
365 which is not cheap.

My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either the
pound sterling or dollar key with it.

Ed

Now that you mention, where is the Euro sign in charmap? I was looking in
Arial font and couldn't find it. I can't do Alt+0128 because my keyboard is
a small one.

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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if
Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel
the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical
one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says
you can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office
365 which is not cheap.

My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either the
pound sterling or dollar key with it.

Ed

Now that you mention, where is the Euro sign in charmap? I was looking in
Arial font and couldn't find it. I can't do Alt+0128 because my keyboard is
a small one.

This keyboard doesn't have numlock or numeric keypad. How do I tyoe special
characters like Alt+0128?

On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:33:11 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote:


My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either
the pound sterling or dollar key with it.


You might want to look into using the free WizKey
https://antibody-software.com/web/so...de-characters/

It does that and lots more.

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...

On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:33:11 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote:


My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either
the pound sterling or dollar key with it.


You might want to look into using the free WizKey
https://antibody-software.com/web/so...de-characters/

It does that and lots more.

Thanks, that's a useful utility.

On 3/7/2015 8:10 AM, Android99 wrote:
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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says
you can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office
365 which is not cheap.

1 year of 365.

On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 17:49:00 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:


Realistically, is that the only missing character you envision needing? If so,
you could remap one of your unneeded character keys to generate the alt0128
character. Take a look at Sharpkeys....

https://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/

I have not used it in quite a while and I have never had such a limited
keyboard, so you will have to play with the utility a bit to see if it will do
what you want.


I use Sharpkeys, and it does what it does easily and very well. But I
use it just to turn off two keys that I never want to use and often
hit accidentally: Caps Lock and Insert.

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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if
Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel
the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical
one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says
you can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office
365 which is not cheap.

My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either the
pound sterling or dollar key with it.

Ed

Now that you mention, where is the Euro sign in charmap? I was looking in
Arial font and couldn't find it. I can't do Alt+0128 because my keyboard is
a small one.

This keyboard doesn't have numlock or numeric keypad. How do I tyoe special
characters like Alt+0128?

Are you sure there's not a Fn key or similar to change the function of
some keys?

Usually, though, I use Char Map and find the character somewhere in
there, then copy it from there and paste it. It's cumbersome, but it
saves learning how to use the keypad :-)

Also Windows has an onscreen keyboard, which I find too cumbersome to
use, but you might find it to be OK. It does foreign language alphabets,
but I don't know what else it can do - maybe enough for your purposes,
or maybe not.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 11:39:26 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 17:27:36 -0000, Android99 wrote:

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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if
Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel
the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical
one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says
you can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office
365 which is not cheap.

My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either the
pound sterling or dollar key with it.

Ed

Now that you mention, where is the Euro sign in charmap? I was looking in
Arial font and couldn't find it. I can't do Alt+0128 because my keyboard is
a small one.

This keyboard doesn't have numlock or numeric keypad. How do I tyoe special
characters like Alt+0128?

Are you sure there's not a Fn key or similar to change the function of
some keys?

Usually, though, I use Char Map and find the character somewhere in
there, then copy it from there and paste it. It's cumbersome, but it
saves learning how to use the keypad :-)

Also Windows has an onscreen keyboard, which I find too cumbersome to
use, but you might find it to be OK. It does foreign language alphabets,
but I don't know what else it can do - maybe enough for your purposes,
or maybe not.

But the other suggestion here (Stormin' Norman and Ken Blake) of a
keyboard utility program sounds better than anything I wrote.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 11:51:52 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 11:39:26 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 17:27:36 -0000, Android99 wrote:

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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if
Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel
the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical
one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says
you can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office
365 which is not cheap.

My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either the
pound sterling or dollar key with it.

Ed

Now that you mention, where is the Euro sign in charmap? I was looking in
Arial font and couldn't find it. I can't do Alt+0128 because my keyboard is
a small one.

This keyboard doesn't have numlock or numeric keypad. How do I tyoe special
characters like Alt+0128?

Are you sure there's not a Fn key or similar to change the function of
some keys?

Usually, though, I use Char Map and find the character somewhere in
there, then copy it from there and paste it. It's cumbersome, but it
saves learning how to use the keypad :-)

Also Windows has an onscreen keyboard, which I find too cumbersome to
use, but you might find it to be OK. It does foreign language alphabets,
but I don't know what else it can do - maybe enough for your purposes,
or maybe not.

But the other suggestion here (Stormin' Norman and Ken Blake) of a
keyboard utility program sounds better than anything I wrote.


If you use such special characters seldom, Char Map is fine. But it's
a nuisance if you have to go to it often. But if you use £ ¢ ¥ ß ä ü
ö ñ é ç and so on as often as I do, WizKey makes it much easier.

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 11:39:26 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 17:27:36 -0000, Android99 wrote:

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Van Storm wrote:
The new HP Stream 11 has arrived to our country! I don't know if
Celeron
processor with 2 GB RAM is enough for Windows 8.1 but 209 Euro for a
laptop I think is good deal. They have in pink and blue with white
keyboard. Looks pretty cool. The storage is 32 GB MMC. I'm considering
the aquisition as a second machine. That's the kind of thing we feel
the
need.

All reviews criticise the trackpad quite severely. Here's a typical
one;
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7...ream-11-review

I'd advise you to try one out before laying your money down.

Ed

The keyboard photos show it doesn't come with Euro sign. The review says
you can't use a lot of apps at same time. The laptop comes with Office
365 which is not cheap.

My keyboard doesn't have the Euro sign; but Alt+0128 gets it every time.
If I used it regularly I'd probably use some utility to replace either the
pound sterling or dollar key with it.

Ed

Now that you mention, where is the Euro sign in charmap? I was looking in
Arial font and couldn't find it. I can't do Alt+0128 because my keyboard is
a small one.

This keyboard doesn't have numlock or numeric keypad. How do I tyoe special
characters like Alt+0128?

Are you sure there's not a Fn key or similar to change the function of
some keys?

Usually, though, I use Char Map and find the character somewhere in
there, then copy it from there and paste it. It's cumbersome, but it
saves learning how to use the keypad :-)

Also Windows has an onscreen keyboard, which I find too cumbersome to
use, but you might find it to be OK. It does foreign language alphabets,
but I don't know what else it can do - maybe enough for your purposes,
or maybe not.

But the other suggestion here (Stormin' Norman and Ken Blake) of a
keyboard utility program sounds better than anything I wrote.


Well, I admit to having used a similar method for years. I keep a
Notepad file handy, which I call AccentKeys, and it contains many things.
This is it in its entirety;

á=160 Ã*=133 â=131 ä=132
é=130 è=138 ê=136 ë=137
Ã*=161 ì=141 î=0238 ï=139
ó=162 ò=149 ô=147 ö=148
ú=163 ù=151 û=150 ü=0252
æ=145



Symbol
Character Name
Character Code
€ = [Alt]+0128;
À capital A, grave accent [Alt]+0192;
� capital A, acute accent [Alt]+0193;
 capital A, circumflex accent [Alt]+0194;
à capital A, tilde [Alt]+0195;
Ä capital A, umlaut [Alt]+0196;
Ã… capital A, ring [Alt]+0197;
Æ capital AE ligature [Alt]+0198;
Ç capital C, cedilla [Alt]+0199;
È capital E, grave accent [Alt]+0200;
É capital E, acute accent [Alt]+0201;
Ê capital E, circumflex accent [Alt]+0202;
Ë capital E, umlaut [Alt]+0203;
Ì capital I, grave accent [Alt]+0204;
� capital I, acute accent [Alt]+0205;
ÃŽ capital I, circumflex accent [Alt]+0206;
� capital I, umlaut [Alt]+0207;
� capital Eth, Icelandic [Alt]+0208;
Ñ capital N, tilde [Alt]+0209;
Ã’ capital O, grave accent [Alt]+0210;
Ó capital O, acute accent [Alt]+0211;
Ô capital O, circumflex accent [Alt]+0212;
Õ capital O, tilde [Alt]+0213;
Ö capital O, umlaut [Alt]+0214;
× multiplication sign [Alt]+0215;
Ø capital O, slash [Alt]+0216;
Ù capital U, grave accent [Alt]+0217;
Ú capital U, acute accent [Alt]+0218;
Û capital U, circumflex accent [Alt]+0219;
Ü capital U, umlaut [Alt]+0220;
� capital Y, acute accent [Alt]+0221;
Þ capital THORN, Icelandic [Alt]+0222;
ß small ess-tsett (ss), German [Alt]+0223;
Ã* small a, grave accent [Alt]+0224;
á small a, acute accent [Alt]+0225;
â small a, circumflex accent [Alt]+0226;
ã small a, tilde [Alt]+0227;
ä small a, umlaut [Alt]+0228;
Ã¥ small a, ring [Alt]+0229;
æ small ae ligature [Alt]+0230;
ç small c, cedilla [Alt]+0231;
è small e, grave accent [Alt]+0232;
é small e, acute accent [Alt]+0233;
ê small e, circumflex accent [Alt]+0234;
ë small e, umlaut [Alt]+0235;
ì small i, grave accent [Alt]+0236;
Ã* small i, acute accent [Alt]+0237;
î small i, circumflex accent [Alt]+0238;
ï small i, umlaut [Alt]+0239;
ð small eth, Icelandic [Alt]+0240;
ñ small n, tilde [Alt]+0241;
ò small o, grave accent [Alt]+0242;
ó small o, acute accent [Alt]+0243;
ô small o, circumflex accent [Alt]+0244;
õ small o, tilde [Alt]+0245;
ö small o, umlaut [Alt]+0246;
÷ division sign [Alt]+0247;
ø small o, slash [Alt]+0248;
ù small u, grave accent [Alt]+0249;
ú small u, acute accent [Alt]+0250;
û small u, circumflex accent [Alt]+0251;
ü small u, umlaut [Alt]+0252;
ý small y, acute accent [Alt]+0253;
þ small thorn, Icelandic [Alt]+0254;
ÿ small y, umlaut [Alt]+0255;
¡ inverted exclamation mark [Alt]+0161;
¢ cent sign [Alt]+0162;
£ pound sign [Alt]+0163;
¤ currency sign [Alt]+0164;
Â¥ yen sign [Alt]+0165;
§ section sign [Alt]+0167;
¨ spacing umlaut [Alt]+0168;
© copyright sign [Alt]+0169;
ª feminine ordinal indicator [Alt]+0170;
« angle quotation mark, left [Alt]+0171;
¬ negation sign [Alt]+0172;
Â* soft hyphen [Alt]+0173;
® circled R registered sign [Alt]+0174;
¯ spacing macron [Alt]+0175;
° degree sign [Alt]+0176;
± plus-or-minus sign [Alt]+0177;
² superscript 2 [Alt]+0178;
³ superscript 3 [Alt]+0179;
´ spacing acute [Alt]+0180;
µ micro sign [Alt]+0181;
¶ paragraph sign [Alt]+0182;
· middle dot [Alt]+0183;
¸ spacing cedilla [Alt]+0184;
¹ superscript 1 [Alt]+0185;
º masculine ordinal indicator [Alt]+0186;
» angle quotation mark, right [Alt]+0187;
¼ fraction 1/4 [Alt]+0188;
½ fraction 1/2 [Alt]+0189;
¾ fraction 3/4 [Alt]+0190;
¿ inverted question mark [Alt]+0191;
‽ interrobang [Alt]+8253 (in Word)
:-) = Smiley
8-) = Specs smiley




Ed