Engadget reviewed UX180P with a lot of photos. Not a very long or educative review, but after reading you understand why Akihabara News’ reviewer got that angry.
It’s a great piece of hardware with immaculate design, soured by mediocre software — typical Sony. The stock Windows XP Professional install is an embarrassment, loaded with enough adware and trialware to bring the already underpowered hardware to its knees — in fact, it hung the very first time we tried to shut it down. Of course, our immediate reaction was to replace it with a clean Tablet PC Edition image, but several drivers on the recovery DVDs we burned were non-functional upon installation, rendering the device crippled. We got closer by downloading drivers directly from Sony’s site, but we found that it was hanging on each and every shutdown and standby. It’s odd to us that a company with such vast resources and a keen eye for industrial design can fall so far short on the software side.
