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Mike: BTW, on some message board that linked to me, some woman got po’ed at her Q1U and re-installed Vista and optimized the hell out of it and turned out very happy. I don’t have the link, sorry.

MPJ: LOL… I think that was me Mike. I thought you were exaggerating in your fondle, but before I wiped it off the time to load the Control Panel was out of control. Now it is pretty good.

Rodfather, who visits often, just blogged about his recent return to XP from Vista, which he’s tried 3 or 4 times on his Q1. He sums up beautifully both what he’s gaines by moving back to XP along with what he’s lost. A very objective piece and thought-provoking.

http://rodfather.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/back-to-xp-tablet-on-the-q1/

I gotcha Mike. I looked on James’ opinion piece to NOT be specific to the A1xx CPU, but to mobile devices in general but I see your point. I think it’s a safe assumption that Vista will generally run better on a 1.0 GHz Pentium M over an 800 MHz A110.

Gotta disagree and rather strongly. Poor performance for Vista on Q1U is only “out of the box”. 2GB RAM upgrade and simple tweaks—turn off sidebar and some eye candy and aero—and the Q1U is more than fast enough for most practical use. I never wait for anything most of the time and occasionally wait under 5 seconds. I would not have it with XP given the handwriting advantages of Vista and I do a lot of handwriting.

Yes, Kevin, but not compared to the much slower CPU of the Q1U, that’s the point I was making.

BTW, on some message board that linked to me, some woman got po’ed at her Q1U and re-installed Vista and optimized the hell out of it and turned out very happy. I don’t have the link, sorry.

MPJ: I’m sure Samsung made the decision a while ago as well.

Mike: so I have a Q1 (Q1P actually). It’s a mobile device so I feel I can share my opinions on how Vista runs on a mobile device, no?

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I saw one at Frys’ in Dallas, but no where else yet inside a store.

Not that I don’t think James’ opinions are great, but Samsung made that decision weeks ago. I just got a Q1U and am working to optimize it, but I am not at a point where I would go back to XP.

Whoa there, Kevin. You have a *Q1*. Your experience there is going to be damned different than having used a *Q1U*. I think Chippy tried that bit, emulating a Q1U on a Q1 and got shredded by readers!

That said, has anyone seen *any* Q1U in a store for actual sale?! I haven’t seen it at the CUSA and Best Buy I’ve stopped in.