Ok, so Hulu is choppy when displayed on the TV. It is fine on the V5 screen (or, sure seems to be anyway) but on the large TV it is choppy. I assume this is a factor of the video card somehow (??)
But… other than that, this is working quite well.
And I just got a DiNovo Mini keyboard (I purchased it from Dell for $119). These things are LITTLE (typing is more akin to texting) but it seems to be working rather well. The manual that comes with it is pretty non-informative and I’m having a few issues… the skip forward button actually pauses a show in Media Center (regardless of what “mode” I have the unit in) and Fast Skip forward and back don’t appear to do anything. However, just dinking around I discovered that I could press a number button (say… 5) and then the Fast Skip Forward and it skips forward some arcane amount (more than if you do 2-fast skip but less than if you do 8-fast skip – and no, it isn’t minutes). I’m having a lot of luck with 5-fast skip – it seems to take me very close to the end of the commercials. Also, I can use the sleep button (well, actually it is a “Function” combination) to put the laptop to sleep (which is better than my media center remote which only has a button to shut down the laptop) but I can’t figure out how to wake it back up without pressing the button on the V5.
Sorry if this is sketchy… it’s late and I’m sleepy…
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Just a quick comment… it is now May 29th and I have yet to charge my DiNovo Mini keyboard… wow.