I love my PowerBook; I really do.  I’m one of the few who doesn’t want a MacBook (although, if Jobs offered me one… ah dreams).  I bought this thing not even a year ago and plan to have last as my main laptop well into 2008, hopefully even 2009.  That said, if Origami is anything like the hype right now (and the price is right), I will have a new toy.  It will be a complete breakthrough, probably not in technology itself (but then again, neither was my precious iPod), but in size, capabilities, and (yes) marketing.

I am not one of the Apple fans who have clamored for a tablet mac.  I don’t really feel the need for a laptop that folds, or (even worse) a laptop that is missing a keyboard.  I have a laptop, it’s pretty big, but it does everything I need it to do.  For me to add another computer at this point, I would need to see a new use.

Tablet computers as they exist now are too big, too weighted down by their features.  This is something different.  It looks to be a bit bigger than my iPod and can go online, allow me to jot notes (not that I would be giving up my moleskines anytime soon), and handle other work.  It would have to allow me to leave my laptop at home and still be able to function.  If Microsoft is the company that will deliver this to me, I am amazed.  Who knows, though.  Jobs has been really screwing around with touch interfaces recently (seriously Steve, if you need someone to play around with one of your toys to, you know, put it through it’s paces I have one thing to say to you: I’m here).  This could possibly be the next “killer app.”

Or it could simply be the next bomb.  There are three factors that have to be at least close to perfect: features, size, and price.  Guys, don’t fuck this up.

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