Good news for those waiting for XP-based OQO Model 02 orders today. People are starting to report availability and customers are giving feedback on their first impressions. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any news about Vista versions.
One such report comes from ‘Kenrick’ who has even run some benchmark tests. As usual, the VIA C7 doesn’t post good results against the Intel ULV CPUs so there are no big surprises there. Improvements over the original OQO model are clear though.
Boot time is around 1 minute 5 seconds (from start to desktop availability – no login process,) return from standby looks to be a reasonable 6 seconds and there are some interesting comments about the capacitive scrollbars in this video.
Remember that the XP drivers for the C7 don’t allow full unitization of the video and encryption hardware on board but I hope that VIA will unlock this when they finally get a driver package together for Vista. Its long overdue and I suspect its the cause of delays not only for OQO but for the Medion UMPC too. My attempts to get updates on the situation direct from VIA has so far only received a ‘no comment’ type response which is really disappointing.
More OQO Model 02 threads at OQO Talk.
