Comments on: Another chance for Raon Digital’s Vega: can it be redeemed? http://www.slashgear.com/another-chance-for-raon-digitals-vega-can-it-be-redeemed-253603/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 15 May 2012 21:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steve Paine http://www.slashgear.com/another-chance-for-raon-digitals-vega-can-it-be-redeemed-253603/#comment-17678 Steve Paine Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:25:22 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/another-chance-for-raon-digitals-vega-can-it-be-redeemed-253603.php#comment-17678 Hi Chris! While I’m pretty happy with the general progress of UMPCs so far I do share some of your frustration. We all have our ideal device in our head and when we think something matches, it invariably has an issue! Not quiet enough. Diet UMPC!
I’m still searching for a ‘Carrypad.’ One day. One day!

Regards
Steve.

]]> By: Chris Davies http://www.slashgear.com/another-chance-for-raon-digitals-vega-can-it-be-redeemed-253603/#comment-17557 Chris Davies Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:25:53 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/another-chance-for-raon-digitals-vega-can-it-be-redeemed-253603.php#comment-17557 Perhaps I am being too harsh, Steve – I think my criticism comes from disappointment. I really want every UMPC to be the best-of-breed, and poor performance (i.e. programs will run, but they run like molasses!) is guaranteed to turn off the average consumer.

However, I shall try to be nicer to the Vega from now on! I’m excited to see what they do with v.2, and I’m definitely keeping an open mind.

[quote comment="17536"]Ah leave the poor thing alone Chris. From my review:

Explorer and Outlook express ran well as did many of the other applications. Adobe acrobat is quite slow but acceptable.Other applications I used without problem were Outlook 2003, Winamp, ac3filter, Acrobat reader, Bluesoleil BT stack, Ilium Inscribe, .net frameworks 1.1 and 2.0, Power-DVD, Google toolbar, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Skype, Trillian, LiveWriter and Zoomplayer.

Xvid runs at 2mbps too. Lovely quality.

Its certainly not a performer but 5 hours batt life is just soooo goood!

I’d actually like to see something like Pepper Software on it. I think it would be an even better performer and a simplet device to use. XP is to complex to use on such a small screen. I wonder if street desk would run. mmmmm!

Cheers!
Steve.[/quote]

]]> By: Steve Paine http://www.slashgear.com/another-chance-for-raon-digitals-vega-can-it-be-redeemed-253603/#comment-17536 Steve Paine Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:30:59 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/another-chance-for-raon-digitals-vega-can-it-be-redeemed-253603.php#comment-17536 Ah leave the poor thing alone Chris. From my review:

Explorer and Outlook express ran well as did many of the other applications. Adobe acrobat is quite slow but acceptable.Other applications I used without problem were Outlook 2003, Winamp, ac3filter, Acrobat reader, Bluesoleil BT stack, Ilium Inscribe, .net frameworks 1.1 and 2.0, Power-DVD, Google toolbar, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Skype, Trillian, LiveWriter and Zoomplayer.

Xvid runs at 2mbps too. Lovely quality.

Its certainly not a performer but 5 hours batt life is just soooo goood!

I’d actually like to see something like Pepper Software on it. I think it would be an even better performer and a simplet device to use. XP is to complex to use on such a small screen. I wonder if street desk would run. mmmmm!

Cheers!
Steve.

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