I installed my ram upgrade yesterday, and so far I have seen some inprovement, in boot time for most of the software I use all the time. The unit does respond faster, but not lightning quick. I tryed Halo again and that was a waste of time. The processer just cant handle that load of graphics,even with the upgraded memory. I'm got some older games I'm going to try next, and see what happens. I'm writing a basic guide to the U1/U3 unit for us english speakers and hope to have it done soon. When you have time checkout my U3 yahoo group. Enjoy- Ben

I'm waiting for my 256 upgrade as well. I have had any speed issues, except with games. I decided to forego the External drive for now and use a SD Memory card and adapter for loading programs. I'm using CDrom imaging software on my desktop, and then I just copy to the SD card and pop it into the PCMCIA slot and the u3 thinks I have a CD rom drive plugged in.It works great for Halo!! Enjoy- Ben W.

The jog Dial is a quick program launcher, and control all in one. You move the dial to get to the program/menu you want to access and then press down on the dial itself to select. The jog dial has menus and sub menus you can access by just pressing down on it and moving up and down. It takes a little practice, as you will find out. The button in japanese to the left is the sleep button. Enjoy-Ben W.

Mine went pretty well. I started out picking up flowers,choclates, and a card for my wife. I had to be sneaky, because she was'nt expecting anything for valentines. I thought the jig was up when here cousin saw me in the store parking lot with my arms full!! But she kept quiet about,so I got home and hid everything since my wife has a habit of coming home for lunch. I then arranged everything by the front door,so that would be the first thing she saw when getting home. She was really surprised!! She called here Mom and had to tell here all about it.I had reservations at a local steakhouse, so then we headed down for steak and seafood at the Broiler. They were so packed that they were turning people away!! We had a really nice evening out on the town. We came home and was surprised by our cat,Cuddles who decided to join us!! A great valentines alltogether!!

I use AVI. I use a dvd converter program called-PocketDivXEncoder_v0.3.50. It converts your dvd files to an AVI. Then for playback I use- TCPMP player for windows. Both are free and work great. Enjoy- Ben W.