Comments on: Windows 7 RC to RTM Upgrade Doesn’t Preserve All Settings

By: USB Sleep of Death

USB Sleep of Death — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:55:55 +0000

[...] Windows 7 RC to RTM Upgrade Doesn’t Preserve All Settings talked about the “sleep of death” problem common with UMPCs and laptops. To save power, you put your device in standby, sleep or hibernate. When you move the on/off switch to resume, the screen remains blank (black), even though the HDD indicator seemed active. The only choice is a restart. Which defeats the purpose of standby, sleep or hibernate. [...]

By: Genghis Khent

Genghis Khent — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:37 +0000

Adrian, as the UMPC Tips articles reference, the X70 screen is touch, not tablet. So you won’t get those tablet features. It’s just a hardware limitation. UMPC tips has written a lot about this recently.

By: Genghis Khent

Genghis Khent — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:55:10 +0000

Norman, as I’ve indicated before, I don’t have a web cam yet to do a video. Re your second paragraph, frankly I don’t notice a huge difference between XP and 7 in terms of performance and functionality. I think the X70 may be marginally faster in XP, but 7 of course has additional features. So either would be a reasonable choice.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:14:28 +0000

running the egalax beta drivers as well, win7 pro. does win7 recognize the touch screen and allow you to use the gestures and such? for me, windows 7 actually recognized the device after install, but it could never calibrate it correctly. i then installed the drivers and it calibrated wonderfully, but it’s not recognized as a touch screen so i don’t have access to the fun little gimmicks. would love to have them working :\

By: Norman D. Robinson

Norman D. Robinson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:16:15 +0000

Good afternoon Sir,

Now that you appear to have all your features working under “Win7″ would you please place a video of this modded device online please…??? I would really like to see this thing in action.

I’m mostly interested in how the X70 preforms with the new OS and information whether you feel it is now functional enough to be utilized as a primary personal system. I would like to see how it preforms using Word 2007 and Outlook 2007 as these are applications that I use daily. Also on occasion I have to manage a switch at work, so how useful is it in that environment with and without a keyboard. (BT and USB)

I hope you can do this. It would be great to see.

Thanks.