Microsoft Origami "Lifestyle PC"

[treblah]

Because I want a XP

Wow, I think my mind has just implod...

 

[weg]

A supposedly-real picture of the Origami has surfaced:



Click it for a bigger version.

The picture was posted at engadget, and here's what they think about it:

For the record, we think it's fake, both because the EXIF header includes a little reference to Photoshop CS (yes, we know that could've been used to optimize it for the web, but still...), and because it looks nothing like the version of Origami that our sources have told us is real.​

 

[weg]

Products that do EVERYTHING always FAIL -- even if they do it well !!! Well, accept Blackberry the first successful do-all product.

Oh, that's why the PC was such a huge failure!

 

[yac_moda]

Oh, that's why the PC was such a huge failure!

The PC was successful because it did one thing, it ran a Basic programming language very well, DOS -- FOCUS !!!

On the other hand relating "Ease of Use" and business applications is hard to wrap your head around

Remember Amiga, a total WIMP machine until it did "Video Toater", then people understood what it was for, so it got a little bit popular for a while !!!

 

[Mechcozmo]

And having the system menu/taskbar at the top has been an option in Windows since 1995. (Yes, I know that the Mac has ALWAYS had it at the top... but it's interesting that Windows lets you choose, whereas the Mac does not.)

Design standards. Keeping the GUI more uniform makes it easier to find things. I always know where the Application Menu is, the Apple Menu, and my battery/airport/bluetooth/displays status is. It usually takes a second to find on Windows.

Products that do EVERYTHING always FAIL -- even if they do it well !!! Well, accept Blackberry the first successful do-all product.

Blackberry's are not do-all. Office compatibility? No. Video capability? No. Expansion? No.

Steady Cam? Those things that require an operator to wear a harness to use correctly? Er... Small computer? If it is designed to do video, it needs to work as a video camera. I don't want to deal with the thing's limitations. If it is a video camera, it should record video at the highest possible quality. If it is a computer, it should be able to accept that video and easily allow me to modify it. What happens when your video camera computer hybrid gets slow? What if you want to make a DVD? Should the camera be able to author a DVD and burn it too? If it did all that, it wouldn't be a video camera. It would be a huge computer, so as to accompany the lens, CCD, screen, keyboard, trackpad, and hard drive. Plus some form of encoder, because a 100GB hard drive would fill up fast with DV-quality video. Anything encoded would make editing a joke.

There is also a big market for a small computer tablet, that is a dictation machine, this has big markets for medical and manager applications.

Most doctors dictate into the phone, where a service at the other end transcribes it for them. Or they use something like Naturally Speaking to both dictate and control their computer. Medicine is a field that things sound cool to fit into, but rarely uses the 'cool' things and sticks with the ways that work.
Manager duties would be very cool, though. It would fit nicely into on-the-job reports, memos, etc. But it may be a bit uncomfortable for longer, at-the-desk work.