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Death of the UMPC?
An anonymous reader writes "Remember the UMPC, that little tablet that Microsoft once called Origami? Well it looks like that Intel has scrapped the idea of promoting the UMPC, in favor of a much smaller (and less capable) Mobile Internet Device (MID). The UMPC is now heading for a market niche, where it may be replacing the tablet PC as a mobile computer for field technicians. The MID takes on the role of the original UMPC concept, but it won't run Vista."
It won't run Vista. What more could you want from a computer?
The MID takes on the role of the original UMPC concept, but it won't run Vista
Because if it did, you'd have to lug a car battery around everywhere.
Exactly. Somebody has sat around in a board meeting and said "well, it's not small enough to sit in your pocket, but it's not big enough to be useful as a PC. We need to give up on the PC idea" and sooner or later they'll conclude that:
* It needs to have the full face be a screen and
* It needs to integrate with cellphone data networks and
* While you're at it you might as well make calls on it and
* Put in a web browser and
* Connect via 802.11 to the rest of the world.
Finally they'll make it look like arse and put WinCE on it. It'll come out a year after the iPhone and will suck. Shit, if we're lucky it'll be called Zune UMPC.
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
While Microsoft says "hey Slashdot how is that desktop linux doing?"
Shit, if we're lucky it'll be called Zune UMPC
And if we're even more lucky, it's gonna come in BROWN
. o O ( TwO hEaDs ArE mOrE tHaN oNe... )
Just so we're clear: are we making fun of the Zune or Ubuntu?
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
No not brown. Following Microsoft's style engineers history, it will either be golden-rod yellow or baby poop green.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
There comes
a certain size
point where lack
of width of the
screen really
begins to be a
problem.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.