Future of Intel’s ultramobile PC?
Update: Infoworld has a long piece on Intel’s pending announcement.
Intel is set to announce at its IDF (Intel Developer Forum) conference starting Monday in Beijing that it will launch a new UMPC platform called McCaslin using a Stealey microprocessor running at 600MHz or 800MHz and capable of supporting Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS, according to several technology blogs.
The initiative may not produce quick profits for Intel. Critics say that vendors are trying to push UMPCs into an awkward market space called the “one-kilogram wasteland” with neither the long battery life of smartphones nor the fast processing power of laptop PCs. Intel has already dipped a toe in these waters, providing a Pentium M processor for Vulcan’s FlipStart. But like the competing Samsung Q1, Sony UX, and OQO Model 02, that product has seen limited sales to niche buyers.
Interesting video that outlines what the future of UMPC might actually look like – or at least that’s the vision. This could be coming soon…. in Beijing next week…who knows! Have you seen this video before? I haven’t. Check it out.
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Every time I see a fore-telling video like this (on unified communications), I scratch my head wondering ‘when all this would be possible, why on earth would these people with god-powers on the fingers would still need spread-sheets, meetings and conf-calls?’
Really funny. If one can be in such a state (depicted in these vids), what relevance would the apps and norms of today would carry?
It Scares Me!
that club idea is retarded, actually most of these are pretty impractical unless everyone in the world works on wall street
Well then, I guess that Apple was right to focus on the iPhone, since everyone in that video was using one.
It all seems like a very nice concept, but it may suffer from farsightedness. Voice recognition is getting better, and maybe every manufacturer everywhere is beginning to discuss a standard to which all devices will comply to ensure compatibility with such devices. I hope that day is soon; although I highly doubt it’ll be next week.
Ugh, this is the silliest thing ever. I feel like the promo is an updated version of dick tracy. COOL, GEE WIZ GIZMOS AND GADGETS RULING OUR LIVES
When’s everyone going to realize that the ultimate implementation of all this fancy technology is going to be mostly passive, and will not have any type of GUI.
Saw this about 20 years ago… it was called the Knowledge Navigator – by Apple.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/knowledge-navigator.html
…but where is the hover board?!
I have been reading about the UMPC for months, and I want one regardless.
Nice dream, wonder when we’ll wake up to see it came true?
Not to sound like the luddite tech-hater in the group, I always like new toys, but has anyone else ever noticed how often these tech companies use the “free to be me” direction in their advertising? Isn’t there some thick irony in suggesting I need a computer watch and a computer TV and a computer phone and computer tooth-fillings just to be myself? Do I express myself by my ability to find my car?
Who are we now, since we don’t have these things? I know, I’m taking it a bit literally, but c’mon, there’s got to be another direction other than convincing me there’s a hole in my life that won’t be filled for 10 to 30 years :)