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Summer, Vista, Q1b, what does it mean?
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Well let’s have a look at my Q1b and what i’ve got going on this summer. I’ll be teaching at a summer camp. Should be fun, should be a great place for a UMPC? Well here’s where i’ll disagree. Maybe moving to Vista on my Q1b was a bad idea? I’m not going to say yes or no, but having the 512MB RAM is not fun. It’s slow. No it’s beyond slow. It just hardly works.
Why don’t i go back to XP? Well i’m sure i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. Vista, it’s the future right? Anyone, Bueller?
Well I’m hoping that it sticks and even the Q1b gets the good news of a BIOS update so i can make the jump to lightspeed…. err, i mean upgrade to 2GB of RAM. If that doesn’t happen soon, well XP may be my best friend. Honestly, the Q1b is sitting on my desk, off. Hasn’t been turned on since the end of the semester. It doesn’t give me performance. I need that. Come on, now. A few more months for progress? Then XP?
Ok, I’ve concluded its not that i’m lazy, it’s merely that i’ve got a VIA processor in my UMPC and i’m getting the short end of the upgrade stick? I’m sticking with that until someone gives me a better excuse to run with.
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Samsung Q1 Ultra Pricing
Monday, May 7th, 2007
Starting at $799! (news from JKK through UMPC portal)
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Why I run Vista
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Ok, so earlier today I was talking to Chippy from UMPC Portal about why I ran Vista on my Q1b. He was asking me name my “top 3 Vista features” and I was having some trouble. Well among other reasons because a Q1b with only 512MB of RAM isn’t the best Vista machine. I finally found out why I run Vista.
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Q1b in the news
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Brighthand.com has a review of the Q1b up. I can’t disagree too much with the article, it’s pretty much correct in most regards. I will say they don’t give too many comments on features but the generalizations are there. Didn’t i review the Q1b a few months ago? Why is it taking larger sites so long to catch on?
This leads me to ask about a possible paradigm shift in UMPCs. Where is the UMPC as a computer? Vista is out, in fact two of my roomates purchased new desktops just to fully utilize Vista. Now with the current UMPC’s there isn’t a clear cut upgrade. The new McCaselin models coming out should support the OS, but does that mean that those of us who were early adoptors are outta luck? I’ve got a machine made for XP, purchased it about 4 months before Vista came out… I can run Vista on it, but marginally at best. Do i upgrade it as much as i can and hope Vista will improve, or suck it up and go back to XP?
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