Comments on: UMID Live Q&A. Viliv, Aigo comparison. 2.5hr video.

By: Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Steve 'Chippy' Paine — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:42:21 +0000

@fishcube Live umid session was some weeks ago! http://bit.ly/1anbAI

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:40:05 +0000

One thing about DMB in mbook. they don’t work in South Korea either…
At least in most part and ‘most part’ means places where other DMB devices
work fine…

By: melmo

melmo — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:43:56 +0000

I thought the same thing as comscier, so I picked up a converter from a dollar store in Tokyo (hyaku en shop). It doesn’t fit. It’s quite possible I bought the wrong converter, but it was in the cell phone section and it was the only headphone converter on the shelf.

Unfortunately I dumped the packaging, so I can’t really confirm what it is.

Apparently I should have bought a whole bunch of them and sold them off on eBay

By: ppx10102

ppx10102 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:41:16 +0000

I am just a bit curious why people here are calling UMID as you- mid . It should be called as you am ai dee, according to company website.

By: ArchiMark

ArchiMark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:39:51 +0000

Check out Chippy’s (UMPCPortal.net) latest video comparison; UMID M1 pocketable computer vs Viliv S5 MID http://tinyurl.com/d573lz

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:39:01 +0000

At least not in Korea, thats for sure.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:24:20 +0000

viliv announced a model with 3G and an SSD at their website. According to JKK, that’s the one they sent him for evaluation. For all we know though, he may be the only person outside of viliv who has an unmodified viliv S5 that has an SSD. I don’t think viliv has announced a release date for the 3G SSD model.

By: DavidC1

DavidC1 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:56:33 +0000

Isn’t there a forum post that says the SSD runs slow AND hot??(review by fixup) You can’t rely on boot times and application loading times as being a “fast” SSD because that’s the inherent strength of using flash memory. The problem is, your USB stick can probably achieve the same thing.

The differentiating factor for SSDs are the write speeds. ALL NAND flash memory used in SSD NEEDS to read the data, store the data temporarily on a buffer, then write it back when you want to write to flash the SECOND time.

See, hard drives can never ever catch up to read speeds of even the slowest flash memory, but they will never temporarily freeze the system(called a “stutter”) which will happen on a mediocre SSD that is logically full.

Plus, they are cheap.

By: John in Norway

John in Norway — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:43:58 +0000

Thanks for these, Chippy. I only got to see some of it so will download the UMID one to see later. Still no viable replacement for my OQO on the horizon, though.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:55:46 +0000

hey viliv s5 has no SSD….

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:14:57 +0000

I don’t think 3G version of M1 will ever be released in Korea…
Korean Telecom componies don’t except such a machine with 3G..
Some compeny don’t except phones unique UI either
We don’t even have Iphone….
Those brats..

By: animatio

animatio — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:43:43 +0000

in some machines one could choose if standby was to ram or to disk.
but one important thing in regard to fast hybernation is: you have to keep the system defragmented (hyberfile as well as sysfile) and the registry clean. both things can slow down not only the system over all, but especially these processes, besides hampering them.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:20:05 +0000

That’s the JKK’s unboxing video of the one and only 3G SSD Viliv S5. It arrived the next day from this live session.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:27:38 +0000

Regarding the odd standby time differences, it sounds like the process the old Libretto went through. The laptop would keep RAM powered on for a set amount of time (5mins, etc), and then after that cache the RAM to HD. If you came back within the 5 mins, power on was almost instant, but after that it would take a while.

By: Cajun_Mike

Cajun_Mike — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:10:43 +0000

I watched the video but couldnt find the part where the EKing was mentioned. What was the gist of that back and forth? Chippy likes the UMID over the EKing? If so, why?