Hi! Very nice video. Thank you very much for the work you have done! Greetz Phil

Thanks for the video. Very informative. Seemed like you were coming from a "glass is half empty" perspective and were a bit surprised when the machine performed a little better than you expected.

Hi Dennis

Enjoyed that (even though my wife is complaining about q1 screen brightness as she tries to sleep next to me.)
I have a number of notes that ive made. will write them up tomorrow but i too got the impression it performed better than you vocalized. 2.0 experience score is good for a umpc!

Til tomorrow.Steve

Hmm... thank you for the post but this is a very ugly piece of equipment. I certainly won't bring that to school and to my works....

Dennis, thanks for going through the trouble of doing a video. It turned out great and I liked it a lot! I'm very enthusiastic about the Q1U and am now a little disappointed to see that you don't seem to like it very much as I think it will be nearly perfect for me. I've played with a Q1 (no b or p) running XP and I found it quite snappy. After seeing your video I'm afraid that speed indeed could be an issue with the new model.

Do you still have the machine? If so, could you attempt to do a clean install of Vista to eliminate all the crapware that was installed on it? Maybe the response times would be a little better then...? Also, does the Q1U have the same small secondary stand (10 degrees I believe) the Q1 has?

Thanks a lot!

Enjoyed the review. Your test confirmed my fears that the keyboard is pretty useless.

As I have an OQO 02 on order, in your opinion did the OQO run faster?

Nice job, Dennis. One observation I would make is to turn off the touch enhancements, i. e. that useless virtual mouse. I disable that on all touch devices as it makes no sense to me to click on something from the side of the object when without it you can just tap the item. That is one of those things that looked good on paper. :) Having played with many, many mobile PCs I have to say that the performance was pretty snappy in the video. Your point that you only ran one app at a time was well taken but the fact of life with mobile PCs is you cannot load up a bunch of running apps. These battery friendly processors just cannot handle them.

One other thing- to avoid the two-handed special key operation on the thumbboard go to accessibility options and turn on sticky keys.

Dennis,

Nice review, Im curious if this can fit in inside jacket pocket at all. I know it will be a bit big but wondered if possible?

Thanks for the excellent review. I understand where you're coming from. It's one thing to be patient and selective in what/when you run programs, but to be actually worried about very basic multi-tasking is another thing entirely. I have a P1610 and while it's certainly limited in what it can manage, it's way more capable that what I saw in your demo.

What bummed me out the most was the poor video performance. While I don't expect to edit feature length films on UMPCs I do expect to watch a short clip without processor-induced jump cuts. ;)

I do appreciate the review though... thorough, clear, and quite fair.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm going to wait for the Menlow platform. This is a huge disappointment for me since I was ready and willing to purchase the Q1 Ultra. Ctitanic has been vindicated!

Speaking about sticky keys, you can actually activate it directly from the keyboard (at least, in xp) by pressing the shift key several (5) times quickly. Just a note.

As I commented earlier, great ink show.
I made a lot of notes which i've expanded out into a post at UMPCportal.
My notes here

http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=686

Steve.

Dennis, I just checked my tests of the Amtek T770 (1.2 GHz) which use a VIA C7M and the numbers I get there are about the same I have seen from A110 devices. So if you ask me, there is not difference between buying any second generation machine with an A110 or with VIA C7M unless you care too much about Aero (this is the only difference).

And if you ask me, I have seen really good designs in UMPCs using VIA C7M lately, like the Medion, the same OQO 02, etc.

Dennis I need to apologize to you. I quote a comment at Origami Project where what I saw written initially was: Dennis is a very well known person in the Tablet PC community. I clicked on Quote, and I did not read the quote again because I assumed it was what I read. So I added. I 100% agreed with you for the first time. Now I came back to find that what the guy was actually saying is what he said, which is not what I think about you.

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry. I do not find any other way to say how bad I feel!

Sorry Dennis, sorry! I apologize 1000 times if I have. I never have felt so bad in my whole live. I posted about your review at my blog and as you can see there I was 100% agree and happy with your review!

Sorry

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed the details and would have liked more about inking and whatever you were saying with respect to "vectoring" being displayed in the video. Inking is a very important component for devices like this.

Also, I think the stripped down version has been "reinvisioned" from what you have on the homepage as:

"4. Q1U-EL - A "back to school" model will be introduced at $799 with a 600mhz processor and Vista Home Premium "

My understanding is that the processor has been upgraded to 800MHz and the price increased. I would have preferred an XP-Tablet version with the 600MHz processor at the $799 price. I think hobbling an underpowered UMPC with Vista is a tragic mistake.

I don't understand why I cannot get this ink show downloaded. I have been able to download all others in a reasonable time frame. But this one is inordinately slow at downloading. Best I can do after running the download a while is getting estimates of 2-3 hours. I have always been able to download even the long inkshows in more like 30-45 minutes. Any suggestions or problem solving or anything different about this one? Any lower resolution downloads available?

I am using a dsl connection. I guess I will just have to wait it out sometime when I don't need the internet connection.

Thank you for the detailed video review!

I am very interested in this model for two purposes -

* a travel computer, where we can store and organize photos, access media, stay in touch via email, voice and video chat, and especially access mapping tools such as Google Earth

* a conversation computer, which can be used while talking, it is not as obtrusive as a notebook but can be used to quickly look things up and remember things (using audio, video, notes, etc). I think the built in keyboard is for this purpose, to allow anyone to enter URLs and keywords.

I really appreciated the overview of loading different apps, but I would *really* *really* appreciate it if you could try out Google Earth. This would be a killer app for a device like this, with a bluetooth GPS device or standalone it would be incredibly useful. But it is a network, memory, cpu and 3d intensive app. Would love to see how it performs in moving around the earth, zooming, etc with different options.

Can you also comment further on the camera quality. I have been disappointed what I've read so far - why is the Apple Macbook camera soooo good, yet these are soooooooo bad? I'd use a 'real' camera for important pics and video, but it's nice to make quick caps while using the computer or video conferencing, if the quality is sufficient.

I understand the camera settings can be tweaked, can you get a decent image or video quality out of it?

Can it record 30fps at a decent resolution?

Can you quickly record video without fiddling inside the app? (I realize an aftermarket app can be used).

With regards to performance using Crystal Marks, if that application uses full screen, the different is very likely related to display resolution, as the Ultra has nearly twice as many pixels to move around.

Thank you very much!

David

I am also having trouble getting the video to load. I am on roadrunner and all other links are working. I even went directly to lipsyn to play it. Could you check to see if it is a problem on their end. Thank you.