A sad moment and one I tried to stop. Origamiproject.com, along with all our links, tips and content, is gone forever. I had a number of emails with people at Microsoft to try and get the content moved somewhere else but it seems that they simply wanted to remove it from their portfolio. Spam management won’t have helped the situation but I’m wondering if they wanted to remove it from their history too. Along with UMPC.com (which Intel let lapse into a spam-fest and then into the hands of someone […]

I haven’t done much work with SSD upgrades since my CF conversion on the Q1 Ultra which, seriously, unleashed the device from the slow hard drive and turned it into a different kind of UMPC. Since then I’ve been watching JKKmobile (the king of SSD mods!) carefully and after using the SSD-based UMID MBook am convinced that a good SSD is ALWAYS worth having on a UMPC. Access speed, R/W speed, noise, heat, power and ruggedness are all positives. It’s only the capacity and cost that you need to think […]