Onkyo BX = UMID M2??
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Apparently the Onkyo BX is based on the much anticipated UMID M2 design.
The promise of …
Spec-wise 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB RAM, and Windows 7…around USD500
… is in reality
1.2GHz Atom process, 512MB RAM running Windows XP SP3.
Oh..and no 3G and a price tag of ~ USD730
Say what????
The Onkyo Japan website gives the following information:
Spec-wise, this isn’t much far off from my M1 (comparison in brackets below) except for small differences.
- Intel Atom 1.2Ghz (vs 1.1Ghz)
- 512MB RAM (same)
- 32GB SSD (vs 16GB)
- 1024×600 screen (same)
- Windows XP (same)
- Wifi b/g (same)
- BT2.0 (same)
- 1.3MP web cam (same)
- Optical pointer (vs none)
- JEITA operating time (idle) 7 hours. (vs real life 6 hours)
Me not impressed..
HTC HD2 no more WindozeZZZzzz!
Comments (3)It’s that time of the year..Xmas is upon us and so’s the gadget itch!
I was holding out for the Nokia N900 to replace my trusty iPhone 3G but S had a brand spanking new HTC HD2 for sale..I just couldn’t resist and bought this 2 days back!
It has a 1ghz Snapdragon processor and a glorious 4.3″ 800×480 screen that has to be seen to believe…absolutely magical!
The IE browser also has Flash support..so it’s pretty close to a surfing experience from a desktop/netbook.
Team that up with a 5MP Camera..Whoooaaayeeeahhh!
The 1g processor makes running WinMo 6.5 a sweet experience..it’s so snappy that I keep pinching myself if Im dreaming as I have never experienced a decent WinMo experience till now! I’m currently multitasking like crazy and this unit’s still running smooth as a baby’s bottom!
It by no means perfect – still loses out in the iPhone in the UI and touch optimization aspects.
Other gripes..microUSB, too wide for 1 handed operations unless you have large hands.
More review to come..:)
Viliv X70 cost or: the story of two buys
Leave a CommentAmusingly when I first bought the X70 our dollar was doing reasonably against the greenback. Not stellar like a couple of months ago (over the dollar) but not too bad. When I cancelled the order due to the delay the dollar had tanked so I lost $100! The US refund was the same but US $’s only bought so many Aussie $’s.
I bought when the dollar was at the left point on this chart…and sold when it was on the right. I cancelled my X70 order and lost money on the deal because of two reasons: firstly i was annoyed at the delay from dynamism and what i felt was the lack of notice from them. Secondly i started to get a bit spooked about being such a bleeding edge early adopter.
given the few horror stories i had started to read from early x70 buyers i really started to have concerns. I mean if OQO can go bust with the huge names and huge money behind them then what hope does viliv have?
But then i ended up buying an X70ex from Japan. the few horror stories appeared to be the exception and i’m happy to say the X70 is proving to be better than imagined. But unfortunately the $100 I saved on the purchase was negated by the $100 I lost by outthinking myself the first time.
Perfect sized car storage for the Viliv X70
I have the car mount in my daily driver but had to use the other car for a couple of days. Since there’s a gps on the window already i just needed somewhere to put it to stop it flying off the seat: viola!
Data restore with Puppy Linux
As any IT person would know you become the helpdesk support for any Family or Friends. That have any sort of computer problems. This week i was given three dead computers to fix. Of course they all contained precious family photos which hadn’t been backed up and were therefore critical to recover.
The first machine was an eeePC and was actually a piece of cake as a quick web search showed that you could press F9 to access a recovery partition and restore the unit. Easy. The othe two are windows desktops, running xp and both are showing non system disk errors on startup. I decided to try something a bit different so I dowloaded Puppy Linux and made a boot disk. This linux is so small it’ll run in Ram. It booted fine and runs quite snappily, all hardware recognised including the wireless which took a lot of mucking around to get working under xp! I copied the files off onto a usb hard disk and the job was done. Nice one puppy.
