Vincent, I don’t use hibernation on any device, XP or Vista. I don’t find the little power savings to be worth the wait to resume.

Hi James, I apologize for responding to one of your old blog posts but I would like to know whether you have a problem with Hibernation on XP for P1610? My battery seems to drain a lot on hibernation on XP but not Vista. Do you know of a way to solve this problem?

JM, I haven’t gotten my hands on the T2010 yet but would like to.

Have you looked at the Fujitsu T2010? Very nice, lighter than the HP, and amazing battery life.

SP1 seems pretty good to me, but I run XP x64 so everything seems pretty good to me

I’ve switched back from Vista to XP on my p1610 a long time ago, and don’t regret it. Although I do keep Vista on a dual boot in the fleeting hope that SP1 will perform miracles. Thank god Vista was free under the Fujitsu upgrade program, otherwise I’d be pissed at the waste of money Vista is.

I also had an old copy of Tablet XP lying around and it works very nicely with the P1610. Couple of issues, but nothing some freeware programs didnt solve. The one thing I do miss though is the writing recognition on TabletXP is pretty horrid. It was quite decent in Vista.

Yeah I do plan on one day switching back to Vista, but I have a feeling it will be around SP2. Or if anyone finally releases a 2gh memory stick for the Fuji.

It’s interesting. I’ve just gone back to Vista Business on my P1610 after a week of XP.

XP was more responsive and docked mode is better however I much prefer the tablet features of Vista and find it better integrated. This time I reinstalled every thing from scratch and I’ve tweaked like mad. Things are running really well, battery life is excellent(wifi on and being used, Bluetooth on, in portrait mode and inking and I’m reporting 90% and 7 hours of battery on my 6 cell).

I think it also helps that l’ve disabled UAC but then I never had it on XP so don’t really need it now. That is making things much more responsive.

James,

What setting do you use for sleep and hibernate on your P1610? Just curious. I use my P1610 all the time but coming out of hibernate is a tad slow to me (probably perception as much as anything else).

My battery settings are:

2 Min. – Mon off
5 Min. – HDD off
15 Min. – Standby
1 Hr. – Hibernate

Also, do you use the fingerprint reader to authenticate?

I will say that I would have purchased a UMPC by now were it not for the P1610. I really like it and use it all the time but I am hesitant to use a device with a processor that is slower than the 1.2 GHz Core Solo in the P1610. I consider it my minimum when it comes to processing power. Perhaps the Q1 Ultra with 2 GB would be ok, but like you, I think Windows XP shines on the P1610.

Josh, I didn’t move, I still use the P1610 all the time. The HP is more productive for me in my daily work, its better performance and full size keyboard works better at my real work.

The P1610 is my “home” machine, and probably my travel machine due to its small and light form. I am fortunate to be in a position to have two toys.

JK, I think you have saved me a lot of grief! I have a Vista installation here ready to install on my P1610, but I’m going to now put that off indefinitely thanks to your experiences.

Let us know when you feel it is finally safe to drink from the fountain of Vista.

Thanks for this and for the hours of fun you and Kevin give us all.