I get very frustrated at situations like this. You have a perfectly capable ultra mobile PC built on an energy-efficient platform and then the manufacturer chooses to completely screw it up by installing heavyweight cycle-sapping crapware that absolutely ruins the experience for the user. In this cases its the R2E. It’s one of the first ‘first impressions’ to appear on the Internet and the user experience feedback is frightening. I know from experience that even Vista can work smoothly on the Stealey platform and I’m sure that, just like was possible with the R2H it can be cleared up and vastly improved but it shouldn’t be like that. When will manufacturers learn that early first-impressions reviews in the Internet are extremely important. They get linked (as I am doing here) and picked up by Google as important reference documents that can make or break the early-adopter opinions and sales which can have an significant knock-on effect into mainstream sales.
First, it is loaded with crap, you have to uninstall for hours, it takes forever to boot, it’s just dead slow for most activities.
On the up-side, it looks like battery life has been improved over the R2H. Not too difficult in my opinion!
