5. Turning it on for the first time

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Looks was never something that attracted me to the Ruputer, um... onHand PC.  As I held it in my hand, I marvelled at how thick the thing was.  Fortunately, years of wearing Casio G-shock watches have prepared me for this monster, since its bulk is quite similar to that of a Casio triple-sensor watch.  And as the day went by, I got used to it and decided that I CAN get used to it.  It's actually pretty cool with its clear casing, as popularized by Steve Job's iMac revolution.  Also, despite its bulk, the thing is surprising light on the wrist.

It has the exact same layout as a standard Ruputer Pro, with 4 side buttons, 1 joystick knob, and 3 gold pins for attaching to the docking station.  As mentioned earlier, although I ordered the model with the clear white casing, it actually has light gray straps and not clear white straps.  Not to worry though, I kind of like this particular color matching.

I was pretty lucky to have read the review by a gentleman via the Timexfun mailing list beforehand.  He mentioned then that he thought the watch was broken because it was off and does not turn on even if any button was pressed.  I had the exact same experience.  So I took a look at the first couple of pages of the manual, browsed through the section which describes how the factory installed batteries should be replaced with those in the key-chain, and finally came to the part about resetting the watch.  I came to the same conclusion as the other gentleman that the batteries could not be that old, and decided to skip the entire battery-changing ceremony and simply commit myself to performing my very first 3-finger salute (literally) and reset the onHand PC with the factory-installed batteries still installed.  The watch beeped (*phew*) and went through the ubiquitous process of checking the system memory before popping up the Matsucom onHand PC startup bitmap...

It's alive.

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