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Surprise! Microsoft's Origami is Not A Game!

In February 2006, a marketing campaign was launched for the "Microsoft Origami Project."  What was the secret?  Pictures of the Origami system floated around the net, and soon it was believed that the Origami would be a new portable game system ready to compete with Nintendo's DS and Sony's PSP systems.  Video footage of a popular game called Halo: Combat Evolved was discovered, and soon everyone believed it.  The Origami was the next great game system...but could it topple Nintendo?

Surprise!  Then it was confirmed that Origami was far from just another contender in the video game wars.  This Ultra Mobile PC was a real personal computer that just happened to be portable and small like a game system. 

Indeed, the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) is a small device.  It's smaller than a laptop, slightly larger than a Pocket PC and more powerful than well, anything you've seen in your neighbor's hands lately.

The UMPC is loaded with the capacity for a 1 Ghz processing speed, a 120 GB hard drive, and 1 Gb of RAM.  It has a touchscreen (and one twice as big as a typical Pocket PC) and can run the universal Windows XP, making it less a cute PC substitute for the road, and more of a real computer that's just much smaller and more convenient to carry.

There is not just one kind of UMPC, however.  Ultra mobiles are a platform design-a design that many companies are trying to emulate with their own products.  (An Ultra Mobile notebook, Ultra mobile laptops and etc)  Companies like Samsung, Founder and Asus are already starting production on their own UMPC portable devices.

The concept of a UMPC is that any manufacturer, if they wish to label it an ultra mobile system, must meet or exceed the requirements set by Intel Corporation and Microsoft.  However, though Windows XP is considered a universal operating system, alternate OS's such as Linux can be run on an Ultra Mobile PC. 

The future looks very bright for the UMPC, well beyond the shine of an LCD display.  In 2007 Windows Vista will be released for Ultras Mobile computers-Vista being Microsoft's anticipated sequel to the groundbreaking XP version.

Origami is not a game!  A portable computer system with powerful hardware and the globally compatible operating system of Windows XP can do virtually anything a computer user desires.