I am still struggling to decide which version of the Samsung Q1 to get. The original with a Celeron 900 MHz, 40 gb drive and 512 MB ram - or the new Pentium M 1 GHz, 60 gb drive and 1 GB ram? I'd love to have the pentium one, but its going to cost a bit more. If you compare prices on these new the standard Q1 costs $1000 and the Q1 Pentium costs $1250. That price difference isnt very big considering the extra performance, speedstep technology, 20 gb bigger harddrive and double the memory! Actually memory is one of the more important ones, since many users report the Q1 to be much more responsive with 1 GB instead of 512 MB just like any other Windows XP installation I have tried. If you want to upgrade the Q1, you actually have to take out the 512 MB sodimm and add a 1 GB. That sodimm will cost me around $150 here in Norway, and I guess if I am lucky I'd get $50 for the old 512 MB chip. So if we say this upgrade costs $100, I have to decide if the bigger harddrive and performance is worth the extra $150.
Additionally you can now buy used standard Q1 UMPCs on ebay at around $800, and there are hardly any used pentium versions for sale yet. So the price difference between the used Q1 and the new pentium is then a bigger one. Along with the fact that I might get a used Q1 with the Samsung organizer and keyboard for around $850 makes it a pretty good deal. I guess the question then comes down to the following:
- Is the Celeron 900 MHz good enough for the few games I want to run on it. And will I actually run games on it at all or just as a novelty? I know the kids would love it, but those games dont require much power (games for children under 6 years and so).
- Is 40 gb enough space for the software, music, pictures and movies I want to have on it? I can see myself wanting to reserve at least 20 GB for photo backup on vacations. Around 5 GB would probably be enough for music, another 10 GB for some movies (mostly cartoons for the kids). That only leaves 5 GB for the OS, software and games. That might be a bit on the low side. That extra 20 GB of the pentium edition sure sounds tempting then...
Difficult choice...
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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