{"id":198,"date":"2006-11-29T19:58:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T03:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticoneva.com\/journal\/?p=198"},"modified":"2008-04-24T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T20:11:47","slug":"samsung-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticoneva.com\/journal\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Samsung<\/a>
\nI have to admit that I have a taste for portable devices: first it’s PDA<\/a>, now it’s UMPC<\/a>. Despite lukewarm reviews everywhere, Q1 comes quite close as my dream machine. In particular, it addressed many inadequates of PDA. Here are the pros:
\n1. Size: Q1 has the size of an average package book; with a weight of less than 800g its very portable.
\n2. Screen: At 7″ physically it is much bigger than anything one could find on a PDA.
\n3. Touch-Sensitivity: I really like touch-screen–mouse-pad and pointer drive me mad. Touch-screen also allows me to work one-handed, something I really need when I am standing. I actually find entering through Dialkeys, a virtual keyboard bundled with all UMPC, somewhat enjoyable…
\n4. Windows XP: Since Q1 runs XP Tablet<\/a>, anything that works on a desktop theoretically works in it to. This is an unbeatable advantage over PDA’s, which need specialized softwares. Just yesterday I demonstrated the concurrent running of World of Warcraft and a program I wrote to a research colleague.
\n5. CF-slot: This is how Q1 wins my heart over Asus R2H<\/a>, another UMPC. I need CF-slot to load photos from my DSLR and R2H only has a SD-slot.
\n6. Spec: Nothing spectacular here–actually Q1 is arguably underpowered–but as a PC it’s still way better than any PDA. I could barely open jpeg’s from my EOS-300D on my X50v<\/a>, not to mention RAW.
\n7. Connectors: 2 USB ports and VGA out, things that are not on my PDA, is really all I need.
\n6. Price: I was originally look for ultra-portable laptops but those are<\/em> expensive. At ~$1000 Q1 costs at most 2\/3 of many popular ultra-portables.<\/p>\n

There are quite some cons too:
\n1. Underpowered: Equipped only with a Celeron M<\/a> 900Mhz processor, 512MB RAM and 40GB hard disk, it’s not a fast computer in any sense. Q1’s 7″ touch screen is almost triple that of my x51v in size, yet at a native resolution of 800×480 it hardly offers any advantage in resolution.
\n2. No microphone jack: The built-in microphone works great, but it would still be great to have the option to plug in an external one.
\n3. No videocam and GPS: Not something I would use often, but Asus’ R2H has both.
\n4. Mediocre Battery life: This is by far the biggest drawback–battery cannot hold much longer than two hours.
\n5. Price: I did mention it cost a thousand bucks…well.<\/p>\n

In the end I am happy: Q1 is the solution to my need; neither PDA nor laptop could address my need as well as the Q1 does. And while many condemned Q1 to its demise, I do see there are others holding the same opinion as I do. Sometimes you just have to leave aside the zillions of reviews and make your own choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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