Brian Jarvis, UMPC Geek

There has been a lot of press coverage of the new Core 2 Duo processors and at the risk of sounding like an Intel commercial, you should believe the hype! Remember that I work for Intel and have no more official voice than any janitor in the company, but I do have a relevant user experience! I have had the chance to play with several flavors of the new processor and have been very impressed with the level of performance. In one of our labs, we have been torture testing one of the new Core 2 Extreme processors and it

Inspired by Kevin Tofel, I opened the case on my Q1 on Friday to upgrade the RAM. I installed a 1 GB DIMM and the process was a breeze. I have found that I can leave more applications running now without any performance degradation, but overall, the change is fairly subtle. Kudos to Kevin for his pioneering effort - His pictures and step-by-step procedure took all the fear out of the upgrade.

I took a bit of a hiatus from watching the TV series Lost.

I did a bit of an experiment last night by leaving my IBM X41 tablet at work and just taking my Q1 UMPC home.

There are a few technologies that I am obsessed with.