KJohn:

Floodguy:

I agree with you all in most cases, but even if Photoshop runs well, it should, it's barely unusable on a 800x480res as it's at 800x600res. Also controlling PS with other than a mouse/keyboard is really unpracticable. I'm a PS pro, using it daily for work, installed it on my Vaio U once, but it didn't last 2 days and it was removed. I think the UMPCs with 800x480res will created some new kind of software, specialize for the specific res, as it was for those 800x480 WinCe devices. Besides, why one shouldn't be able to update to DirectX 9 or 10?

thats the real question on my mind. what if i install direct x9c

like will it blow up? im not understanding that, is it a limit on the processor?

KJohn,

I think it is mostly related to the sound/graphics board/driver. As long as one is able to update their sound and graphics driver to most latest ones, Direct X will use those features from newer versions. In case of Vaio U (was DirectX 8), I'm able to update my graphics driver (Intel) but I'm not able to update my sound driver cause SoundMAX does not provide updates to enduser only to vendors. And they're sticking with that. A different Vaio model I bought last year had the same sound board with a newer version, so I did used that on my Vaio U too. Worked well.

Now Sony has different sound boards, so there is a stop here in updating drivers. :-(