I spent like 20 minutes with it. I only really got to use a few things, like the paint program, chat, web browser, and camera. Everything took like 10-20 seconds to appear, and screen elements would slowly draw themselves as you did anything. I wasn't really aware of how slow the Geode is, but it kinda reminded me of early Windows CE devices, it's that kinda slow.
But that was just part of the problem. I appreciate that they're trying to do a new, more universal UI, but I found it unbelievably confusing and frustrating. Everything is represented as a 16px monochrome icon and it's very difficult to get an understanding of what's going on.
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L. Cyphre @ Oct 24th 2007 8:33AM
What apps did you test it with and how slow was it exactly? Web browser, text processor?
L. Cyphre @ Oct 24th 2007 8:36AM
Uhh, question to SuitCase of course.
Just add the damned 'delete' button already Engadget.
SuitCase @ Oct 24th 2007 8:57AM
I spent like 20 minutes with it. I only really got to use a few things, like the paint program, chat, web browser, and camera. Everything took like 10-20 seconds to appear, and screen elements would slowly draw themselves as you did anything. I wasn't really aware of how slow the Geode is, but it kinda reminded me of early Windows CE devices, it's that kinda slow.
But that was just part of the problem. I appreciate that they're trying to do a new, more universal UI, but I found it unbelievably confusing and frustrating. Everything is represented as a 16px monochrome icon and it's very difficult to get an understanding of what's going on.