Running Intel Core Duo
I’ve just got my new Toshiba Portege M400 – my first Intel Core Duo and Tablet PC @ the same time. And it’s great. It came just a couple of days before I went back to Sofia, for DevDays 2006.
However, I think Toshiba has some problems with the preinstalled software they ship. A colleague orf mine has the same (although he’s not a Dev) and he shared with me that he has some major problems with the performance. It turned out (at least for me) that when I run virtual machines, for example, I get much better performance after I’ve uninstalled Toshiba Bluetooth Stack – a sort of a pack of drivers and software for managing and working with Bluetooth devices that came with the preinstalled OS. The bad thing is that so far I haven’t found another way of enabling Bluetooth on my tablet – MS’s drivers that come with XP SP2 doesn’t seem to find the hardware components. And I need those, because I want to be able to use Internet over GPRS (which is pretty cheap in The Netherlands these days – 10 EUR per a month for unlimited access). So I’ll keep searching.