Q550 - Windows 8

[Steve S]

<<...sadly, Ntrig will not support the control panel...>>

...There are issues with Windows 8, but I wouldn't take this as the final word just yet...

[upperking]

This is why I will never buy a fujitsu tablet ever again. This Q550 has the same preformance of my old pentium 2 laptop. It A JOKE!!

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[Agent 9]

This is why I will never buy a fujitsu tablet ever again. This Q550 has the same preformance of my old pentium 2 laptop. It A JOKE!!

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I hope your post is a joke... the lower end Atom processors are about on par with a PII/PIII or a ULV mobile Pentium M, but because the Atom is about high battery life and low performance while it performs about on par with those older processors it is a heck of a lot more efficient (heat & battery life) and it has some updated architectural aspects... but currently you can only get long battery life and poor performance (Atom & AMD Fusion Chips) or poor battery life and good performance (pretty much everything else that is C2D or better)... and, yes the Pentium M Tablet PC's are about as usable as these Atom devices, they cost a lot less, but they are heavier and have somewhat poor battery life

Its got nothing to do with Fujitsu (HP, Motion, Acer and a few other companies have low end devices like the the Q550), its on you to select the right tool for the job.

[e-schreiber]

Its got nothing to do with Fujitsu (HP, Motion, Acer and a few other companies have low end devices like the the Q550), its on you to select the right tool for the job.

Exactly. People buy motorcycles to beat the traffic, but complain when they get wet.

[upperking]

Im not complaining about the tablet design. I have a ipad, galaxy tab and even a phone that can run circles around this weak cpu in this tablet. I bought one when it first came out and wish to hell I would have returned it before it was to late. Its a dog plain and simple...

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[Bronsky]

Im not complaining about the tablet design. I have a ipad, galaxy tab and even a phone that can run circles around this weak cpu in this tablet. I bought one when it first came out and wish to hell I would have returned it before it was to late. Its a dog plain and simple...

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Blame Intel for failing to make the cedartrail run to spec. You're comparing very different OSs as well. I run all the same software on my slate (well mostly) that I run on my powerful Acer notebook. Your Ipad and droid won't. So, your glorifird cell phone os isn't really running circles around the W7 tablet.

[tstephane93@yahoo.com]

Im not complaining about the tablet design. I have a ipad, galaxy tab and even a phone that can run circles around this weak cpu in this tablet. I bought one when it first came out and wish to hell I would have returned it before it was to late. Its a dog plain and simple...

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This is a benchmark posted by PC World for Intel Medifiled.
and the Verge

Medifield is even slower than the Okatrail and you can see how it beats out ARM processor pretty handily and is on par with the latest Tegra 3 (with Android X86 core still be significantly less mature than ARM version).

With W7, you load all kinds of drivers and services behind the OS, that is why it is more functional and can run much more complicated full application than a truncated App. The cost of that is the W7 OS places a lot more burden on the system resources. I for one, blames part of problem to Intel's crappy video drivers support (which they outsource ATOM gpu to imagination for the PowerVR core).

[bheim]

With the N-Trig driver, multi-touch works, but the experience is bad. I was going to uninstall the driver. But in the device manager i am disabling only the pen input fist. And my feeling is: it's now usable.

[nebu]

nobody answers in my thread so ill report the promplem(s) in this one too

1. pixelline problem (other thread)
2. sleep mode doesn't work reliable (in most times, the blue LED at the on/off slider lights up permanently, instead of flashing on/off) if this happens i have to hold the on/off switch 5s to turn the tablet off
3. after installing the Ntrig multitouch drivers, the finger input with virtual keyboard is very unresponsive and "slow".
4. cpu usage never reaches 100% but programs are lagging and don't run smooth.
5. Windows Experience Index doesnt work (pc crashes)
6. cant disable bluetooth after installing the driver
7. (maybe no win8 issue) the battery charges reaaaally slow. A friend with his samslung series 7 slate charge 60 or 70 % (and he still works with it) in a hour. I charge maybe 20% with the same data on the power supply (19V DC ; 2,1A)

[123Fels]

nobody answers in my thread so ill report the promplem(s) in this one too

1. pixelline problem (other thread)
2. sleep mode doesn't work reliable (in most times, the blue LED at the on/off slider lights up permanently, instead of flashing on/off) if this happens i have to hold the on/off switch 5s to turn the tablet off
3. after installing the Ntrig multitouch drivers, the finger input with virtual keyboard is very unresponsive and "slow".
4. cpu usage never reaches 100% but programs are lagging and don't run smooth.
5. Windows Experience Index doesnt work (pc crashes)
6. cant disable bluetooth after installing the driver
7. (maybe no win8 issue) the battery charges reaaaally slow. A friend with his samslung series 7 slate charge 60 or 70 % (and he still works with it) in a hour. I charge maybe 20% with the same data on the power supply (19V DC ; 2,1A)

I am using the win8cp on q550 (atom z670)
1. I don't have your pixelline problem
2. Sleep mode works always. After waking from sleep mode, sometimes i have to wait till the screen gets responsive.
3. With the n-trig multitouch drivers my softkeyboard also gets laggy (changing windows to balanced or performance-mode improves that a little but not enough for me - I uninstalled the n-trig drivers.)
4. The performance is sufficient for Outlook, Onenote, Word and Powerpoint – the job I would expect from a current fanless business-tablet gets done. Some in this forum stated, that the performance in the metro interface would be acceptable/better/..., if intel would provide a proper gpu-driver (but Intel has a very bad track record for supporting their PowerVR based gpus).
5. don’t know, don’t care.
6. I can disable the Bluetooth device in the device-manager.
7. yes, battery charges slowly, well known.