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Mar 14, 2006 | 6:59 pm

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all I gotta say is, it better play the slingplayer!

Slingbox Player for Origami

Mar 14, 2006 | 7:40 pm

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Didn't something else just like this, but at a $2000 price tag, just get released?

Mar 14, 2006 | 7:43 pm

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Didn't something else just like this, but at a $2000 price tag, just get released?

That would probably be the OQO, been out for around a year now, and I am pretty sure they are crapping themselves right now...

Mar 14, 2006 | 11:19 pm

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I'd buy it (if the price is right). I've been waiting for a device like this for ages.

sony has a device for 2 years already on the japanese market.
i think it is a vaio.

its small and its a full windows xp pc.

if it wasnt that expensive i would buy it too.

dp

Mar 14, 2006 | 11:34 pm

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there you go

http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/VGN-U50/

dp

here is an auction in japan

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h34457962

its sold since 2004..

dp

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Mar 15, 2006 | 5:32 am

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Originally Posted by derpelikan

sony has a device for 2 years already on the japanese market.
i think it is a vaio.

its small and its a full windows xp pc.

if it wasnt that expensive i would buy it too.

dp

It was actually out in the US market as well, but they pulled it after just a few months. I had the "pleasure" of having one on review for a week, and hated it. There really is a limit as to how small you can go. Same reasons I disliked the OQO. Given the poor sales figures the VGN-U750P had I am not suprised they stopped selling them. It was just another Aibo, Qualia, "Bean" product gone bad in typical Sony style...

Mar 15, 2006 | 7:50 am

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Well, Intel and Microsoft have finally unvelied Origami, a graphical shell to XP running on Intels new Ultra Mobile PC form:

For some reason "BOB 2006" pops into my head.

Mar 15, 2006 | 7:54 am

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For some reason "BOB 2006" pops into my head.

*ROFLMAO* I'm very curious to see how many people will remember.

Mar 15, 2006 | 8:01 am

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*ROFLMAO* I'm very curious to see how many people will remember.

Remember it? I still have it here. Every now and then I'll run it just for giggles.

I really did suck beyond anything they had ever made.

Apr 14, 2006 | 2:16 pm

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Boy this sounds like a real winner. Laptop-like battery life and $1200.

Apr 14, 2006 | 2:50 pm

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umm would someone enlighten me as to what "bob 2006" is? I googled it, wikipedia'd it, google imaged it... no love

Apr 14, 2006 | 2:58 pm

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umm would someone enlighten me as to what "bob 2006" is? I googled it, wikipedia'd it, google imaged it... no love

It was a joke. "Bob" was Microsofts idea of a new OS back in 1995

http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html

It was one of their biggest flops ever, even worse than WindowsME and wasn't on the market for long (if at all actually).

The reference to "BOB 2006" is a joke, as some think Origami will be the next big flop...

Apr 14, 2006 | 2:58 pm

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MS Bob was a Windows "UI overlay" application for newbies that Gates' wife Melinda was the stepmother of in the mid-90s.

"Bob" led you, and himself, nowhere quickly.