Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:54:37 +1000 From: "Des" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Received my new U100 today!
I received my new Libretto U100 this afternoon, opted for the Blue model, U100's come in Black, White and Blue.
Haven't had much of a chance to play yet, fired it up, went through the final setup steps for XP home and booted into windows.
U100 comes loaded with Norton 2005, Office, some DVD writing software and the finger scanning software.
U100 comes with a 60gig drive, noticed that it is already down to 48gigs without me installing a thing. It seems the new Libretto has a restore parition on the drive which you can run a Toshiba utlity to restore the OS and system to a factory state. Seems most new computers these days come with this option, which I guess is nice for the new users if they break anything they can start from scratch again. First thing you notice when booting up one of these babies is the quality of the screen, it is VERY bright and very sharp, once I worked out how to sit the Libretto in the DVD combo drive I fired up Gladiator on the DVD player. U100 makes a very nice portable DVD player, sound quality is not as good as I had expected, although definately much better than the 110CT, is slighty tinnie I guess is the best way to describe this. Although still plenty of clarity and scope to the sound system. Again the screen is very sharp and there is no ghosting affect at all. DVD drive is a little noisy and slow to fire up.When it is spinning the disc up you can notice a quite loud hummm and vibration from the drive. I keep going to reach for the pointer on the side of the screen, however it is located in front of the keyboard as with most laptops. The U100 still features the same style pointing device as the older Librettos, however the little touch circle is quite small, probably the thickness of a pen, however it is quite responsive and a natural progression from the previous models.
Overall I am very pleased with the new model, is expensive, probably more than it is actually worth at $2k US, however I can see I am going to get many happy hours of use once I whipe the OS and install XP Pro and my own choice of software.
If anyone has any questions or comments please fire away.
Regards Des
