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Saturday, July 08, 2006

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Engadget goes hands on with the UX180P

- Rob Bushway

Engadget has published a really decent review of Sony’s UX180P, including a lot high quality, close up pictures. It is interesting that as part of their review process, they determined that the Tablet PC OS needed to go on it, but had a lot trouble with drivers.

Every time I see one of these reviews, I come a little bit closer to biting the bullet. I can just picture myself walking around CES, snapping pictures, shooting video, and blogging from it. Then post it all easily because I’m connecte to EDGE or T-Mobile.  If I were to buy one, I’d immediately wipe it clean and put Vista on it. BTW: Dave Ciccone has published a How-To on replacing the Cingular SIM card with a T-Mobile SIM card.

So, what were Engadget’s concluding thoughts?

Despite its flaws, the UX is likely still the best thing going for ultimately portable computing, leaving the UMPC crowd and the venerable OQO in its dust. For those looking to take the plunge, we recommend keeping a pulse on the user community to work through these driver issues and make it a worthwhile second or third computer --



7/8/2006 9:39 AM MST  

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Saturday, July 08, 2006 7:09:39 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Rob

Vista is a strange land for the UX. I initially tried it an got it all working EXCEPT for the Zoom and the Camera. It just wouldnt work. To be honest I re-imaged the unit and now thinking of blowing away the 6 gig partition. My backup DVD's are on order at Sony and wont be in for three more weeks so I might have to wait a little longer. Either way this has to be the fastest 512MB computer i have ever used. For some reason this baby flies!
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