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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.)
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?
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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"Internet is a fad" edition of "The road ahead"
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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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I used to have one of those tablets (an earlier revision, the v800xpt, with 256MB ram and a 20GB hard drive)
It was nice, smaller than a laptop (but not by much), built-in Wi-Fi, camera (which sucked, btw), USB, ethernet, modem and came with two carrying cases - one with an integrated keyboard.
Decently packaged, if a bit cheap on the material (but at the time the only tablet PC for less than $1000)
It was slow compared to modern computers (800MHz Transmeta CPU, 256MB of ram with WinXP will do that), did not have stellar graphics (large resolution or high compression movies were a no-go) and pen response was a bit slow (even drawing in MS Paint was a painful experience)
One of the cost-factors which kept the price under $1k was the use of a non-Wacom digitizer. Unfortunately this required the use of AAAA battery in the pen. Not only is this size battery difficult to find, having to house them in the pen made the pen itself less durable and prone to breaking (I cracked one, my mom has since cracked a second).
Other than that, it's still a decent little computer, easy to travel with, good for use with GPS and mapping software, and especially playing solitare (I gave it to my mom for christmas a year ago, that's the primary use it's been getting for much of it's life)
I've since replaced my mini-tablet with an even smaller Oqo, but my interest is also piqued into what Origami truly is.
It definitely looks like a mini-Tablet style handheld.
If so, I'm hoping by now they've managed to overcome the early mini-tablet's shortcomings (listed all too generously above)
MS has since dropped the requirement of a digitizer screen and 1024x768 resolution for a computer to count as TabletPC (the v800 was only 800x600, but they went TabletPC anyway), so they might go straight touch-screen to save costs on Origami.
Hopefully at least they include a decent 3d-capable graphics chip and Intel CPU + 512MB ram if this thing's gonna run XP. Other than that, it shouldn't take too many high-end components if they want to keep the price-point as a sub-Tablet range product.
One more week to see how the speculation plays out, I guess.
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!" -Rush
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.
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does it come preloaded with Folding@Home?