Bloggers' Origami dreams crumpled

Bloggers' Origami dreams crumpled | News.blog | CNET News.com

For weeks, gadget lovers have been dreaming of Origami--and they've been dreaming big. CNET News.com got the chance to tinker with a few prototypes of the highly anticipated series of devices expected from Intel and Microsoft today at the Intel Developer Forum. Hoping for one portable machine that could handle video, audio, photos, word processing, games and Web access, many technophiles were disappointed with what we saw. And if Microsoft is working toward a device like this, it's taking baby steps to get there. Origami More details will come to light Thursday at CeBIT in Germany. But today's prototypes feature 7-inch touch screens, x86 processors and weigh 2 pounds. But Microsoft is readjusting expectations on price, saying they'll come in under $1,000 (not the $500 goal they had previously set). And the devices have a battery life of only about three hours, not exactly the all-day-on-the-road action some were hoping for. Intel showed off a prototype of a device with a swivel-out keyboard that may ship in the future, but the first-generation version won't have that feature.

From what they are saying, Origami basically in a day has died down into nothing. 3 Hours of battery life is terrible, compared to many portable laptops. The price that they are estimating are also high, 1,000 dollars is hitting the area of low end lapotops, which may have more power than Origami has. This article makes the new technology exremly dissapointing, I'm hoping that something may improve from it.

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