Comments on: The Gadgeteer reviews the Sony UX50 Micro PC

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:44:08 +0000

Damian,

How does the screen look outdoors? Is it usable?

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:02:46 +0000

Over at the micro PC forums they guy there has installed Tablet on his UX. I agree you need more time with the unit to fully judge it. I’m getting tired of reviews done after a couple of hours use. My own review is going to be written after enough use to encounter a variety of situations, trips, meeting etc. So I don’t even know when that will be :).
I’m loving it at the moment though. Skype is so easy now, no headset/brain required: truly plug and play in a way.
And a last note on the screen, even though the specs read as “very small” and high resolution I find it surprisingly easy to read. In fact after looking at the screen for a while I went vback to my powerbook and the screen looked downright fuzzy.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:45:57 +0000

I wonder if anyone has done the Tablet PC OS install on the UX. I’d like to take the plunge as soon as I my UX50 arrives next week, but I remember my experience (as a novice which I still am) with doing so on the U70. It was a pain to reinstall the Sony drivers (they had to be installed in the right sequence). So I’ll ponder on it a bit and try to see if there are any driver related quirks with the installation.

If anyone has done this already, please share any thoughts or provide any pointers.

Thanks

By: tx6700ux

tx6700ux — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:19:31 +0000

JK,
Have you tried using Mind Manager on the UX? If so, what are your impressions? Which version of Mind Manger have you used?

Thanks.

By: Ctitanic

Ctitanic — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:08:44 +0000

JK, I have checked the screen shots posted in that review. Those screen shots are in my PC around 30% bigger than the actual size of the real UX50 screen and the fonts in some of the screens are just extremely small. Excuse me… but to me XP running in a 5 inches display is just a joke. And more at a high resolution and from my experience in the real word, Windows at 800×600 is almost impossible to use due to the amount of screens that do not fit in that resolution. I’m switching in my eo to every of the 3 resolutions available all time due to screens no fitting well.

By: Michael Venini

Michael Venini — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:53:49 +0000

It’s the inking part that i can’t do without. I can use Onenote on XP Pro, but any inking you make is saved as an image, and not inking. At that point there is no way to search, edit, or add to you ink.

By: Alslayer

Alslayer — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:29:27 +0000

I don’t get what is the big deal with the tablet pc os. I have a Samsung Q1 and don’t see any special features of the tablet os. Windows journal is kinda neat. Am I missing out not having onenote and mind manager? I pretty much just use the stylus as a mouse.

Is there something I am missing? Where can I learn about the benefits of the os?

By: Wellbutrin zyban.

Wellbutrin zyban. — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:07:00 +0000