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Justin Jaffe Fondled the UMPC

Mar 9, 2006 3:37PM PST

Just in case you're one of those people who only come to CNET for the Buzz Out Loud forum...here is a video by Justin Jaffe

http://news.com.com/1606-2-6047223.html

I would like to have one, I think the cost will be the worst thing though.

Also, another thing that I thought about. Maybe this wasn't something that Microsoft was going to release, maybe the only involvement Microsoft was going to have in it was the operating system.

And yes, Justin did say fondled!
http://tinyurl.com/pgzb2

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It's KINDA cool... but...
Mar 9, 2006 4:38PM PST

You know... there must be a hundred amazing shools out there that teach industrial design. So why is it that all of this amazing new stuff looks like it's a step back 15 years? That pig should be half as thick and have a frame border no thicker than a quarter of an inch. Come on, PC world! Sony (when they aren't busy being A-holes) has shown us that B plus designers do exist in the non-Apple world. Let's see at least an A minus from SOMEBODY.

-Kevin S.

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Features over Looks
Mar 9, 2006 11:56PM PST

For me personally I would love to have the Origami so I could plugin my digital camera, pull my images over and then edit them on Picasa right on my Origami. When I am out taking pictures, I don't want to pull out a big laptop, this would be perfect, especially if it had a Memory Stick Pro slot.

And again, me personally, I think they both look really cool. I especially like the way the Samsung looks. Whichever has the most features & best price, I'd gladly buy...if I had the money! LOL.

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Form and Function
Mar 10, 2006 1:14AM PST

I think the idea for this thing, like the Newton, is ahead of its time. As Tom mentioned, in 5 years (I'd think less than 2) Apple will have the correct version of this thing which will have:

1) a lower power 65 nm or smaller chip (tiny heat sink)
2) an OLED display (low power, bright for outdoors and sky-facing)
3) 64 GB solid state memory and no hard disk (low power, small, durable)

It will be thin, beautiful and called: THE NEWTON JR. Happy

-Kevin

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Since it would likely be bigger than the Newton ...
Mar 10, 2006 3:51AM PST

.. wouldn't it be called the Newton Sr.?

Happy

-Terry

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MiniComputer?
Mar 10, 2006 2:13AM PST

Remember when a Minicomputer was smaller than a mainframe, but larger than a PC? No. Ok ... Its official. Im old.

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I'm familiar with the term
Mar 10, 2006 2:59AM PST

I've heard it before, but had no use for it.

Would that make desktops microcomputers?
laptops things as nanocomputers?
PDA's/UMPC's as picocomputers?
I wonder what a femtocomputer would be like...

-Ryan