Note to self: One of the main reasons I bought the Belkin Storage Router was to take advantage of the NAS like features.

Seemed like a really nice solution without a bigger investment.

As a wireless and wired router it works a treat.

However as an attached storage device (via the StorageManager application) the slow transfer speeds to the connected drive (~2mb/s) make it unusable as a NAS alternative. What a shame...

John Hodgson

The new beta version of Windows Virtual PC feels kinda nice but is a little unpredictable.

A few key points I have come to learn:

1. Server 2008 does not appear to be a supported guest OS. But it does seem to work ok for me thus far.
2. There is sparse documentation it appears (as in none at this stage).
3. Virtual PC 2007 and the new beta version cannot co-exist on Windows7.
4. Integration features are flakey at best with server 2008, mapping to a share from the host to the guest is slloooooowwww as a work around.
   • I found upon startup that the enabling integration features screen would drag out for a few minutes and sometimes show an error dialog but the VPC would still open and be functional, but no VPC integration of course even though the VPC itself thinks integration features are active, the Tools menu shows the option to enable integration features greyed out indicating the features are active.
   • I was able to get integration features working once the guest has started by opening the services applet and restarting the “Virtual PC Integration Components” service. This step reactivates the Enable PC Integration features in the tool menu which subsequently allows drives to be used from the host in My Computer.

The new version seems nicely integrated with Windows7 and seems to be less aggressive with system resources; possibly quicker to start up and suspend and I like the full screen mode which is more like RDP, however you can no longer drag files between the host and guest desktops like you can with VPC2007, hence PC integration features are pretty important. Anyway its looking good but there seems to be room for improvement at this early stage; otherwise this is a useable beta.

John Hodgson

I had the Q1U only a few hours before replacing XP with Windows7. But touch and pointer accuracy was low. The Q1 needed to be calibrated.

However it took a lot longer stuffing around with the Q1U to get the display recognized as a real Touch Screen so that calibration is possible.

It would be nice if Samsung released some native HID device drivers for the Touch Screen. Anyway it's nice to be able to calibrate the Screen and finally be able to touch the screen with some accuracy using Windows7. The UMPC Portal has a thread discussing the issues.

I followed these hints and tips but I couldn't get touch working properly until I did the following.

1. Open device manager
2. Expand the Human Interface Devices Section
3. There should only be one device in there
4. The advice in the thread suggests to uninstall and delete the existing driver; this didn't work for me 50 try the following
5. Update the device driver manually with one of the inbuilt drivers as shown, Finepoint seemed to work for me
6. 
7. Once the update completes, reboot the Q1
8. The device will now work like before but you can now do the update again to the indicated driver
9. Update the device driver with this as provided by the UMPC thread
10. Reboot again, I then found I had pen and touch settings in control panel, then you can calibrate

Anyway this was one major step toward getting the most of the Q1.

Without much effort. other features work well and mostly out of the box including the Fingerprint reader, Webcam, wireless and Bluetooth.

However the Samsung application Menu UI doesn't appear to work although it installs and displays.

Other than that this is a pretty cool UMPC and at 800 MHz Windows 7 runs well and it to is looking good even at RC1.

John Hodgson