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Origami Not A Gaming Machine
Gamespot reports that despite earlier reports, Microsoft's Origami isn't intended as a portable Xbox. From the article: "As shown in the leaked video, Origami machines will feature a touch-sensitive screen a la Microsoft's tablet PC line, will run Windows XP, and will be priced lower than most full-size laptops, running from around $500 to $1,000. If that price tag seems too low for a mobile PC with a high-end graphics chip--which would be necessary to run the Halo footage shown in the leaked concept video--that's because it is. The AP article says flat-out that the Origami is 'not a portable version of Microsoft's Xbox videogame console,' nor is it 'a music player designed to take on Apple Computer Inc.'s mega-popular iPod.'"
Of course origami isn't a gaming machine, its folded paper for crying out loud!!!!
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It's just an expensive PDA that will do way too many things that most people will never use
We'll see tomorrow...
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
Wait a minute... if it's not intended to be a portable X-box, and doesn't have a high-end graphics card for playing Halo, then why the hell do they have Halo playing in the concept footage? For that matter, wouldn't playing Halo on a touch-screen be an exercise in futility regardless of its horsepower? This just doesn't add up.
Bigger than a newton, less powerful than a laptop, touch sensitive so you have to shield it when not in use, not a large battery life, and running XP.
Wow. What demographic are they trying to hit?
In the video, they show the screen being used with a stylus, like a Tablet PC. That would suggest a Wacom-style digitizer, which is NOT the same as being "touch sensitive".
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Actually, it's the art of paper folding, not the folded paper itself.
Oh, hold on... that's what it is in Japanese, but Dictionary.com also accepts your way, so I guess in English, it's all good.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=origami
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I thought the whole point was to provide a replacement for the Blackberry. If they had a system that was super-integrated with Exchange, they could easily win over all the Blackberry-addicted executives if RIM had to shut down.
With RIM still around, i bet its still a Blackberry competitor. Network admins would love a single solution integrated with Exchange and Active Directory.
Han shot first.
The Origami is HUGE!
How could anything that BIG and HUMONGOUS ever make it on the market today?!?!
Infact, the Origami is so MONSTOROUSLY BIG that it was big two years ago!
And, no, I don't car if its a gaming PDA/phone or not, since its so big, I wouldn't want one no matter what it does.
Well, okay, maybe you could hide behind it while your friends look for you, that counts as a game, right?
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
Future history will most likely prove me wrong, but maaaaaaybe THIS is Bill Gates' challenge to Negroponte's $100 Laptop! After all, MS smalled the $100 laptop as too large... and that everyone should be able to have one! (And oh yeah, fine print, it's $500, runs a closed-source OS and can't be charged with a hand crank)
There are lots of attempts to come up with a new form factor and a market niche to go with it. It's getting wierd. Apple's new iPod speakers have the form factor of a ghetto blaster. (There's a strong resemblance between the Apple Hi-Fi and the 1984 Radio Shack boombox with a dock for a Sony Walkman.)
NOT a rectal suppository... even IF the company is good at giving it to you up the arse.
So like when you're *supposed* to be playing games, you can secretly fool around with an excel spreadsheet. Probably would need an instant game restore button so you can pop back into the game quickly so your buds don't see that you're a serious lad.
And it's diffrent from the Transmeta Caruso how??? It has a camera, 802.11g, a detachable keyboard in a holster thingy and runs Windows XP.. Cheaper I guess... yes, i do mean that in both ways. This has been around for a while... Move along.. nothing to see here.
BTW I think they are discontinued cuz noone wanted them...
Give them the illusion of choice and they will blindly follow for they choose not to make one.
I own a PSP, and most of my usage of it isn't games - it's mobile video. Even if Origami (or as it more probably will be titled, the Microsoft VistaPad XP Professional) can't do games, I think it has definite potential. The direct advantage it would have over the PSP is that since it runs XP natively, it could play any kind of movie format that is available on the PC without conversion. Having to convert everything to PSP video formats is a pain. That's almost enough for me to buy one right there, although obviously the battery life, screen, weight, hard drive size, wireless options, system toughness and price will factor in pretty heavily, not to mention that this entire thing is still in the "concept" stage and may change radically if and when it ever arrrives on a sales floor.
It's interesting to note that since Vista has such beefy 3D hardware requirements to run Aero Glass, the Microsoft VistaPad XP Professional won't actually be able to run Vista without reverting to XP-style effects. I don't want it to run some horrible lobotomized version of Windows Mobile though.
The other, more interesting question is... will it run Linux?
That thing is an Advue V800XPT-2S
From what we've seen from the videos, it's probably not a whole lot different than some of the Slate style Tablet PC's (which is what the Advue is).
It would appear to come with a docking station, have a detachable keyboard, no camera. It probably has WIFI and Bluetooth, but not Cellular Data (all the people in the Video use a cellphone along with the Origami).
Looks like it may have Media Center Extender functionality, the woman who takes hers out to the backyard pulls up the Media Center Interface and starts music playing on the Desktop PC.
Please don't put it in the game section then. I have MS news turned off for a reason.
Heute die Welt, morgen das Sonnensystem!
I'm quickly going from interested to, well, not.
$500 should be the high end of the price range.
Then what is it? It's not an iPod, it's not a PSP, it's not a Mini-Xbox, and apparently it's not a computer either.
You know what I want? I want a 21st century equivalent of my Psion Series 5. I don't want a cut-down Windows PC/PDA combo that does 27,000 things, none of them even remotely as well as a desktop or laptop, as a portable - I want something that does a good job with basic tasks like word processing (and things like playing MP3s are now included in that), fits in a pocket, works off a couple of AA batteries and has a keyboard. Stylus plus keyboard may not be the most convenient way of working... but it's better than stylus and no keyboard.
Oh, and I'd like it to integrate seamlessly with OS X. Steve Jobs, are you there?
You must think in Russian.
Ok, since the original speculation on the orgami device was a bit off. Are there any other devices out there in the market that include a Digital Camera+Video Recorder(min of 4MP and 10X optical zoom), 5GB HDD, GSM Phone, PDA + MP3 player?
It's a chair, that folds on impact, kind of like oragami. It is going to save Microsoft loads of cash with all the chair throwing that they like to do up there.
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Wake up, fanboy...
Depending on the price tag, it might be good as an e-book reader + occasional web surfing (if includes wifi).
...that I'm a 3rd Dan Black belt in origami. What I can do to you will just a sheet of copier paper can make your eyes water. Remember, that a thousand paper cuts can really hurt!
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Halo is available on PC though... so although they say not a portable Xbox, does that also exclude the fact that it can run PC games?
running from around $500 to $1,000. If that price tag seems too low for a mobile PC with a high-end graphics chip--which would be necessary to run the Halo footage shown in the leaked concept video--that's because it is.
An XBox costs $179, and it runs Halo just fine.
My other first post is car post.
does it come preloaded with Folding@Home?