I’m sitting here in front of a huge 1920×1080 screen with a 1280×800 screen as an extended display. Windows 7 is running and I’ve got 10 Firefox tabs open, Windows Media player, Tweetdeck, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Mesh, Windows Paint and Windows Live Writer running. (Love those Windows Live apps!) It’s all running smoothly on the tiny Fujitsu Loox U (U820/U2010) in 1GB RAM. The last time I was able to do this was with the 1.8Ghz version of  the OQO 2+  but it wasn’t as smooth as […]

We’ve waited a long long time to see a production Viliv S7. An early prototype was seen at CES in Jan 2008 and the re-design was seen over a year ago at IDF. Finally the production devices are moving out the door. At least in Hong Kong. One early adopter in Hong Kong, ‘bad_one’, has been providing some updates in the forum. He’s also sent over some images so it’s time for the first end-user ‘proxy’ review of the Viliv S7 3G (1.3Ghz)

Look U driving 3 million pixels Originally uploaded by umpcportal.com Since I bought my full HD 1920×1080 monitor (LG W2261VP) I’ve been testing with Menlow-based UMPCs. Yesterday I managed to get the Kohjinsha SK3 driving it but it took a few driver updates to get it working at the correct reslution. Today i’m using the Fujitsu Loox U in it’s docking station and it’s driving the two displays in extended mode without any problems at all. I’ll use this as my desktop setup for today to see if I notice […]