Comments on: Elonex One t’s on their way..post your review comments here

By: vic

vic — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:22:29 +0000

I took delivery of my elonex onet+ a couple of weeks ago but it had to go back as it wouldnt remember time when shut down and restarted. I received the replacement machine and it seems to work. (yesterday, 10th October 2008).

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:57:54 +0000

I would just like to know when the rest of us who ordered and pre paid back in March are ever going to see sight of theirs? All attempts to make contact with the suppliers are failing.

By: justinwhite

justinwhite — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:02:48 +0000

USB – My 8Gb shows up as having 3.5Gb; however I have loaded it with 6.3Gb of files and it then thinks it has 1Gb left (all the files show and open.

By: jim_griff

jim_griff — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:20:38 +0000

WIRELESS FIX
The Maplin patch fixed my wifi issues too. Thanks helidave.

By: jim_griff

jim_griff — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:58:44 +0000

KEYBOARD FIX

My ONEt keyboard had about nine keys that did not work. When I eventually spoke to the right people at the UK head office they explained a simple fix that just involved re-seating the keyboard cable. Seems like a few got past quality control on this…
Anyway keyboard works fine now. I would recomend calling them before attempting this fix just to make sure you do not invalidate your warranty.

I also get very slow wifi that keeps dropping out – I wonder if this is a cable/QA issue too..

By: Leven2e

Leven2e — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:30 +0000

You confuse the Mb and the Gb,
also the RAM with the SSD (solid state disk)

By: helidave

helidave — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:06:56 +0000

One or two updates

The T Plus has got 2Mb of RAM but the second 1Mb is accessed via File Manager which shows 1Gb of memory in My Documents and 1Gb of memory in the Extend folder.

The T Plus looks the same as the “World Cheapest Computer” the Skytone Alpha 400 available for $130 in batches of 50.
http://www.liliputing.com/2008/07/worlds-cheapest-laptop-is-just-130-if-you-order-in-bulk.html

The wifi worked correctly in Weatherspoons.

Big USB memory sticks seem to be seen as 1Gb. I plugged in 16Gb and 15Mb went missing. Has anyone tried anything larger than 2Gb?

By: simon

simon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:10:36 +0000

Trials and tribulations, disaster, then… success!

I was investigating the different themes available and somehow managed to permanently lose all the desktop icons. No problem, I thought, I’ll download the recovery image from Elonex and start again. However, **there is no recovery image** available – the links on the Elonex site are dead. I was resigning myself to claiming a refund when I found the (indirect) link on this forum to http://www.trendtac.nl/ – they sell a badged equivalent to the OneT+. Using Google to translate from Dutch to English, I found and successfully installed a recovery image, and upgraded it using the “software update” facility. So, I was now back where I started (working machine but no WiFi) albeit with a slightly different (but functionally equivalent) dekstop. Reading further on the site, I gleaned the fact that failure to connect via WiFi was not unusual – the suggested solution was to change the WiFi channel. This I did, on my D-Link DSL-G604T, changing the WiFi from channel 6 to channel 1, and bingo! The Elonex now connects successfully via WiFi.
I’m a much happier man now than I was 24 hours ago, and will now continue testing the thing out on WiFi as originally intended. Elonex tech support would do well to visit and learn from the Trendtac site.

By: helidave

helidave — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:45:29 +0000

People have apparently been having problems with the WiFi. There is a patch on the Maplin site with installation instructions here:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=225532&C=Newsletter&U=08P10-2&T=11925360

By: e1admin

e1admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:02:31 +0000

I’ve added a new board on the forum for people to post up sucessful hardware on.