Super Ultra Mobile

This trip I decided to travel super ultra mobile. No 7 inch UMPC for me. No 5 inch UMPC. No I instead opted for a Nokia N95 with a Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard

All my email goes to my mobile and I figured I'd only need to send a couple of emails and possibly logon to the intranet (which I can do from the phone too actually) a couple of times, so I thought I'd probably get away with this ultra-portable setup. I did.

I successfully conducted all my business from the phone/keyboard and even did these blog posts. The N95 has all sorts of connectivity options, wifi, bluetooth, 3G internet, etc. I found the wireless handy for the free wifi in the Qantas club and otherwise when away from a wifi I could connect via 3G. It wasn't perfect as the screen is very small and the keyboard can get a bit tiring to type long comms on, but overall I was very happy and know I could do it again no problems.

travelling at xmas

Is it a sign of success that one has to travel for business at xmas or is it a sign of not quite enough success? Merry christmas and here's to not working next year!

Projects underway

We're almost finished the final cut on a Hip Hop training DVD (it's huge) and in pre-production on a couple of shorts.

More later but one of the shorts will do something never before seen in a short film. We're not even sure it's technically possible yet!

Vistamised - booting vista on the Fujitsu P1610D

14 minutes and 44 seconds. That's how long it takes to boot Vista and get to an email. I waited to purchase my Fujitsu P1610D with Vista Business as I'd read there were some driver issues. I figured if I bought one with Vista pre-installed there'd be no issue - WRONG! The speakers stopped working after I plugged in headphones. Of course the speakers don't run while the headphones are in, but they never came back on. Known issue apparently. I had to download a new driver off the Singapore website as the english one didn't work. And the microphone doesn't work at all - driver to be updated soon....

This is not a slow machine, Core Solo 1.4, 1GB Ram, and Vista on it is unusable. I'm going to phone Fujitsu tomorrow and demand an XP Tablet recovery disk.

I was so frustrated with Windows Vista that I shot a video of booting it up. If you want to watch the whole thing you'll see it takes nearly 15 minutes to get to read an email in Outlook. And i've turned off all the eye candy. All I do is start the machine and click on the Outlook icon, 14 minutes and 44 seconds later I can see an email in the preview pane.

I compare to an old G4 Mac Powerbook and a Panasonic CF-R3, both of which boot and get to email in under 2 minutes.

Vista is ridiculous.