The C7-M at 1.5 is reported to be about equivalent in performance to an 800mhz Pentium 3-M. So it may not be any performance increase, but should certainly be a battery life increase, if only a few minutes.

Major bummer. The Q1 mics are really good too. Much better than the ones on my LE1600. One thing though. If I use the Q1 voice recorder, the audio capture is really good, except it captures the soound of the hard drive writes. I assume this is the audio capture writing to disk every 2-3 seconds.

That’s a shame because that means a Q1b owner would have to carry a separate mic. Bummer!

According to the Q1b manual, the array mics are gone. It has a new Mic IN input on the left side.