After a month of using Vista, I've found a few great things about it:
Overall, I am liking Windows Vista more than XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. However, there are a few annoyances for me and I am going to put XP Tablet back on for now to see if the good outweighs the bad. What's bad, you say?
- The display is never properly calibrated. I've tried different drivers, manual calibration, and more but I can never seem to get it just right. Typically the upper and lower portions of the screen don't respond as they should - Either too high or too low - and nothing I tried could fix this permanently.
- The clock goes out of sync. This is a WEIRD one for me. Internet time doesn't sync and my clock consistently loses about a half hour per day - usually while sleeping.
- About half the time when resuming from sleep, my speaker emits a loud, shrill tone that continues until the system makes any other sound.
These ALL are driver issues and until AMTEK/TabletKiosk release Vista certified drivers then I am sure they'll stay that way. The tough part is that I blew away my 100G hard drive to put Vista on it, so I have to manually back up all my documents to an external drive or over the network and then restore them. Happy Independence Day!
2 comments:
I noticed these anoyances too. About the first one, if you know some spanish take a look to this post I wrote at TodoUMPC:
http://www.todoumpc.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2589&PN=1
I made a little application to make the user's calibration global, so it's used in the logon screen too. The application is named GlTabCal and can be downloaded here: http://www.todoumpc.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2674&PN=1
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