The OQO is back in play
A rough weekend hardware-wise has me now using the OQO as a desktop. I’ve never used it this way before. Once I tried connecting it to my KVM, but the resolution was only 800 x 480 and on a 22″ wide monitor that was horrendous. This time I connected it directly to the monitor and I guess this allowed it to detect the monitor because it snapped into 1680 x 1050 without issue. I then plugged in all my USB drives and peripherals and I was good to go (I’m a USB nut and went USB everything, my desktop was basically just a cpu, ram, video, and an OS drive). Turns out the OQO, while certainly no power house, is surprisingly usable as a desktop machine.
I shouldn’t be surprised, it is what the OQO is designed to do, to use it as a desktop machine that you can take with you and stick in your pocket. I just never used it as a desktop until forced. I may stay with it for a while. It may be no gaming machine, but my desktop is strictly work anyway (ok, I may occasionally watch hulu too), and for that it is fine. I can only assume that the OQO didn’t like being confined to mothballs except for weekend trips and so it offed my desktop while I was sleeping. I’ll have to watch it more carefully.
