Pro Foleo

James Kendrick has a new op-ed piece titled, "Vista will never run well on mobile devices." Kendrick explains how frustrating the Vista experience has been on all the mobile devices he's tried.

"The dreaded disk thrashing that occurs with too little memory leaves the device unresponsive to the user until it's done doing whatever it's doing, and that takes way too long on the slower processors…

"I do not have a good outlook on resolving the Vista performance problem on mobile devices in the near future."

JK says the Vista experience is better on fast laptops with Core 2 Duo processors, but even then the system will often have slow-downs that leave the user frustrated.

"Who knows what it's doing when it freezes up temporarily but bottom line who cares?  It shouldn't do that."

"If you use Sleep and Resume you quickly fall victim to the dreaded Vista la-la land where the device fails to resume properly.  Sometimes the device comes back fine but without a screen which is oh so useful.  Other times it comes back but hangs the entire device up in just a few seconds."

Kendrick doesn't seem to be a fan of the Foleo, although he has said that a few writer types might find it useful. Still, Kendrick's editorial definitely emphasizes what many Foleo fans don't want in a mobile computer: A bloated memory hog of an OS that is better suited to a desktop workstation with several gigs of RAM.