It’s been a couple of weeks now using the Viliv S5 on Win7 RC. So far I’ve been unable to make the touch screen rotate along with the screen to portrait mode. I tried moving back to the original windows xp but it was missing tablet pc options. I went as far as trying to install a hack to get tabletpc components however it lacked some language file so I gave up there. I tried installing from a tablet pc 2005 disk only to find that I get blue screened during install. I already knew this ment that I needed sata drivers as these windows disks predates sata support in motherboards. As well, I tried using eeeRotate which bundled a mouse rotator. That totally made my touch screen go erratically. For now, we’re stuck waiting for Viliv to come out with an updated mouse/Video driver to fully support screen rotation.

After about 20 usage spanning of about 3 months, my OCZ usb stick decided to die. Fortunately it only held my windows 7 install. I’ll take this time to bring up online storage solution such as Mircrosoft’s Skydrive. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=BAN_MSCOM_HPF_WL_SD_01072009. 25 gb of online storage. I recommend users get into the cycle of storing copies of files online. I can conceivably create a windows service which would backup “My Documents” folder to the online storage of choice. Skydrive, or Webhosting (using WebDAV, or WebService)

Finally the S5 has arrived! I was lucky enough to get the first batch from Dynamism. My choice on an Atom portable bottomed down to a choice between the Sony Vaio P (which I got my hands on at the CES 2009 earlier in the year) or the Viliv S5. Netbook vs Umpc. I missed my old Samsung q1 and the subsequent replacement to the Asus R2H left a very bad impression in the future of UMPCs. Regardless, my choice was for the Viliv S5. a smaller UMPC with haptic feedback. First thing off, I will backup the existing OS and replace it with Windows 7 RC. As well, I will attempt to install a Hackintosh build.