A Day in Paradise

For a company that’s all about marketing Project Origami was a very lame attempt of the Applesque  “don’t say anything and surprise everyone” guerilla marketing technique. The little hype that was generated when it broke on scoble’s blog an other places, was totally killed when it seems that MS couldn’t stand the pressure and just came out with the fact that it was just another tablet PC.

Anyway, it’s out now, and it does look fairly interesting. There are no technical specs yet, but from what you can see from the flash animation is that it has:

• SD Card Slot (ASUS model)
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• 2 usb slots (keyboard and mouse?)
• Firewire slot (or is that Mini USB, hard to tell)
• Antenna (on the Samsung model)
• Built in “Joystick” mouse

More details are here and here. Oh, and here… damn 2-3 hours of battery life??? I wonder if that’s regular usage or something other high resource usage, like say watching a movie…

The Samsung certainly looks better. It weighs 2 pounds, so it’s not exactly a blackberry killer. But for a full featured computer it does look fairly slim. Again, no hardware details are available.

Oh, and now I see that it’s already been slashdotted… $599 - $999 Not bad. Beats the Mac Mini

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