In the video, I talk about my choices of today’s element (fire) and my transport of the day (the bicycle), and take you on a little tour of Edinburgh.
The Compal was used for three main areas today – wiring up blog posts, doing the route planning (courtesy of Google Maps, which takes me on a weird route I wouldn’t have considered), and pointing out the extra information about the monuments on Calton Hill available by browsing the internet when you’re standing next to them.
I suppose as someone who is somewhat well versed in the UMPC area, I should have taken a look at the Wikipedia page for UMPCs, but I’ll be honest I hadn’t until a few days ago. I found something rather surprising when I took a look at the page and it made me chuckle a bit.
As you can see in the image above, there are several warnings about the article placed at the top of the page. The first one states:
This article or section appears to contradict itself. Please help fix this problem.
I’ve never seen this warning on a Wikipedia article before and feel like this really says something important about the current state of UMPCs and the UMPC definition. Back in the early days, Microsoft created their own definition of a new class of PC which went by the name ‘Origami’. This is rather confusing because Origami turned into the touch screen software developed by Microsoft, and stopped being used as a term to define the group of devices. UMPC became the de facto term, partly because OEMs were not creating machines that fit Microsoft’s definition of an ‘Origami’ device. For example, the VAIO UX line which featured a 1024×600 resolution screen, was not considered by Microsoft to be a UMPC because it’s screen resolution was higher than the 800×480 that Microsoft had specified, even though it was smaller than many of the other UMPCs. For this reason, the Origami touchscreen software did not come included on the VAIO UX series of UMPCs.
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