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msmobiles.com_robot
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:12 am Post subject: CNBC confirms that Ultra Mobile PC from Intel is Microsoft Origami Project |
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CNBC confirms that UMPC = Ultra Mobile PC is in fact the Microsoft Origami and CNBC also reveals some details:
Read more at http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/5004.html |
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peterw
Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 35
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| What an utterly pointless exercise. Its to big to be portable and two small to be useful. Its ugly and lacking in features. Typical Microsoft. |
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EJR

Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 2629
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| peterw wrote: | | What an utterly pointless exercise. Its to big to be portable and two small to be useful. Its ugly and lacking in features. Typical Microsoft. |
well, apparently one will be able to buy TV series and watch them on this device and it has full Windows XP so loads of programs will work right away.
But I agree: it's much too much overhyped. |
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thelostsoul
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 143
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| From what I hear, there's no HD, which means small amount of flash...one can only hope that they include at least some amount of GIGAbytes of flash rather than megabytes, and it also means that the amound of space will likely be very small, so a lot of money spent on upgrades....I'll just call this a very large, and highly overhyped PDA. |
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