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Compadres! It is time to crush the freedom fighters before the start of the rainy season, and with that I mean, I need to report on my first months of OQO use in old Europe.
I bought the OQO in December 2004. Initially I didn't use it much, I rather worshipped the little one, just looked at it all the time. What a beauty.
Anyhow, I finally got hold of an external drive to install some stuff. I use a Powerbook G4 at home, so everything's kinda new to me. I think the Transmeta works relatively well with the OQO, it's not too slow, and the heat only starts to bother on rare occasions. The noise is definitely noticeable, and yes, it does sound like an airplane turbine. well, well, so does my powerbook.
The thumbboard: mouse buttons are cool, track-stik's generally nice. buttons are not great. The thumbboard could be much better, people. Much better. Just remember the Psions, and add some background lighting, it's important. I tend to not use it for presentations for 2 reasons: too lazy to bring the docking cable and afraid the battery would give up on me.
Wi-Fi, as everybody can tell, is weak. But I can also add some Bluethooth experience: I use the OQO with my 3G mobile, the Motorola A1000, on the "3" network in Austria. it's the perfect match, theoretically. I even have a data plan that would allow me to use it a lot for a flat rate (500 MB a month for 29 EUR). However, the BT connection, or more precisely, the internet connection drops continuously. I can't think of any reasonable explanation except for the OQO's BT weakness, because the same internet connection is perfectly stable and fast with my Powerbook. It really is. So I figure it is neither the network nor the A1000's fault. Strange, if anybody knows any tricks, please let me know.
Other than connectivity issues, I had no major crashes or whatever. It's a really stable little computer, I may say.
Apart from that I enjoy the OQO, but I haven't yet used it heavily. Will try to use it instead of my iPod this week, let's see how that works.
