Now the Origami project is not rumour any longer but real news and it looks really interesting!
There is quite a discussion whether this is really something new or just another occasion where Microsoft takes an old idea. And it may even be as there is the flybook, oqo, the motion blade, and more. But actually I don't think this is
The Point
The problem with the available devices is, that they're much too expensive to penetrate the market. Microsoft did want to push tablet PCs for quite a while now, but unfortunately until today there're only a view available and all are much more expensive than a laptop with similar hardware! I'm looking for one for quite a while now and the only thing I found effordable is the Nokia 770—but this isn't anywhere near a laptop and I couldn't use it for all the things I want to do…
What I'd Like To Do
I'd like to use it to surf while lying on my sofa, browsing my images stored on my desktop pc in another room, reading emails and blogs, browsing through flickr, and to carry it arround if I'm away for longer periods to store my images and to review them (and maybe even as a pc remplacement when I'll be away for some month end of this year…)! For surfing I could use a Nokia 770 and for image storage an Epson photoviewer. These are nice devices (though I heard much about not perfect software on the Nokia), but why should I need two for these tasks?
My Requirements
For the image storage I need quite a bit of space. It should be more than 20 GB and because of that the Nokia isn't suitable at all. For reviewing I'd like to have an resolution of at least 640×480, the more the better. For carrying around it should be about DIN A5 and weight less than 1 kg (this is hard for tablet PCs, even the flybook weights about 1.2 kg!).
It would be best if no exotical hardware would be used (yes, I'd like to run Linux as primary OS there if possible) and it should cost 1000 € at max!
Maybe Microsoft just makes this possible now and I'm waiting for the devices to hit the market! I just wonder, that Apple didn't do something similar yet…
And no, I'm still no big fan of Microsoft. But I like some of their hardware and often they hit the market on the right time and they have the power of marketing (BTW, I don't like Apple very much either and they just don't get as much criticism as Microsoft because they are the under-dog).
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