Prestox

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Excellent portable!

Nov 23, 2007

Rating: 9 out of 10 (Spectacular)
Pros: Compact, Lots of Features
Cons: Vista, No Firewire
Opinion:
I just bought this in Hong Kong a week ago. I was very impressed the moment I saw it in the store. It had exactly what I was looking for in a portable computer. It was small, light, and it ran Windows. Whatever software I had on my desktop, I could run on this, as well. The U1010 is nicely equipped. It has an SD/CF reader, USB2.0, headphone/mic, wireless/lan, and a vga adapter. It's missing an IEEE1394 port, and this version doesn't have 3G (the current U1010 does).

Vista is a horrible OS for this unit. Even when I switched to the Windows Classic theme, and disabled most of the services and startup items, it still performed sluggishly. I now have Windows XP Tablet Edition, and the U1010 now performs beautifully. Windows takes less than 3 minutes to boot to the desktop versus the ~10 min crawl for Vista. With XP, video and audio play smoothly without any detectable choppiness.