[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo Upgrading] spacecat:
Eaglesteve im sorry mate

but you are the most selective poster i have ever met!

A. YOU make all kinds of assumptions about what people say and basically misrepresent what they do say

1. I NEVER said i use my EEE ONLY at the office, I said

'I TEND to leave it there during the week and take it home at weekends or if i am going away' therefore i use it outside of the office environment quite regularly

my reason for this is that I work for the Government and we are not allowed to use the work internet on our 'FULL DESKTOPS!' for personal use.

Therefore i use my EEE and viewty for internet usage when i am at work. All my WORK WORK is done on my WORK DESK TOP!

However my Viewty is also capable of accessing the full internet and i have actually used it to post on this site before as well.

Obviously using a keyboard and a 7 inch screen is more preferable but the viewty is a VERY capable internet machine in its own right.

You make UNsupported statements about so many things its frankly almost impossible to have a discussion with you

1. YOU stated that the EEE is not a FULL XP machine can you explain

a.what you mean by this?

b.What is statement this based on?

please quote where you saw or read this

I have pointed out that the EEE is fully XP capable and have even pointed you in the direction 'YOUTUBE' where it can be demonstrated that it can handle serious gaming which is AMAZING for such a small cheap machine. CAN you back up your own arguments?

You totally ignore salient points and have a blinkered view re the Athena and yet you claim u do not.

I think you are totally blind to the MANY FAILINGS of he ATHENA yet you keep 'WRONGLY PUSHING IT' as a wonderful solution. No sorry its not WRONG its just your opinion!

It does however have lots of faults and is only HALF decent due to EXTENSIVE work done by the hackers and programmers on this site.

IMO and many others the ATHENA is:

1. Completely CRAP as a phone, its big cumbersome and without a bluetooth headset frankly ridiculous to make a call on unless u like people pointing at u in public laughing. I made ONE call in public on it without a headset and thought NEVER AGAIN!

2.The rendering of INTERNET pages on IE or OPERA is very slow...locating....locating...looking up etc etc for a machine of its size and power its annoying and unfathomable

3.The keyboard is more of a Stand than a keyboard and has literally NO RESPONSE, the keys have NO Travel at all.Not everyone likes to use a touchscreen all the time

4.MP3 playback is cumbersome at best due to the shear size of the thing and there is no dedicated butons for it

5.Video playback is appalling out of the box and barely adequate after installing all kinds of programmes and making loads of settings.

For its size and power this is nothing short of a JOKE!

6.Video Streaming is RUBBISH! it constantly BUFFERS and renders the device quite useless for video streaming unless you are using wifi which strongly limits its usage in Europe! HSDPA should be more than adequate to do this and indeed it is on OTHER devices

The ATHENA does have some good points which is why I STUCK WITH IT For 7 MONTHS despite the above! That HUGE screen is nice and WM6 can do a number of things but at the end of the day

ITS NOT XP!

What i wanted was a FULL XP experience in a small form factor and the ability to have a phone that ACTUALLY WORKS LIKE A PHONE.

I believe I now have the best of both worlds in 2 devices.

The AMEO is TOO BIG to be a phone and TOO SMALL ,TOO WM6 and TOO slow to be a decent lap top.

With my set up i can have ULTRA mobilty with the VIEWTY

1.FULL FAST internet access anywhere

2.FULL perfect out of the box DIVX playback

3.FULL and easy MP3 playback

4.FULL access to email on the go

5.FULL and fast VIDEO STREAMING no Buffering

6.Ability to read Office Documents

7.Ability to carry documents as if on a USB key!

8.The viewty can access up to 16GB Micro SDHC cards thats a LOT OF STORAGE!

9.Compatible with MOBILE TV, LIVE FOOTY MATCHES on the go!

If i want the FULL FAT XP experience ON THE GO then I can bring my EEE which is incredibly light for a laptop and is widely reagarded as the BEST BANG FOR BUCK LAPTOP in terms of price,portability and functionality. its screen is 7 inches compared to 5 inches and well the difference between XP and WM6 does not need to be explained.

The only thing my set up hasn't got is built in GPS and seeing as I do not drive OR PLAY GOLF! its not really a problem :)

This is a forum where people have a right to air their views and experience theres no such thing as being 'WRONG' to push any solution. I am not 'PUSHING' any solution i am merely pointing out how my in my opinion my set up works FOR ME! better than another based on MY experience

Other people can make up their own mind whether or not a similar solution would work for THEM based on their own needs and requirements