I already have an Ultra-Mobile PC: It%26#039 called a Newton

Yes,everyone's going crazy over the Ultra-Mobile PC(UMPC), the new cla of handheld devices that run Windows XP and are su osed to be the best thing since sliced bread(sliced bread with two and ahalf hours of battery life, but that's a different story). I don't know what all the hype is about, really. MyA le Newton 2100, which was discontinued about a decade ago, does just about everything else a UMPC does, and has asimilar form factor. Let's do a modest feature comparison. According to Microsoft, a UMPC boasts:

• A touch screen. My Newton does as well. Check.
• WiFico ectivity. Using the drivers written by HiroshiNoguchi and any 5 volt Lucent/Orinoco/Agere WaveLAN, I can co ect to an 802.11b acce point for internet (usingeither the NewtScape or Net Ho er browsers), email (with SimpleMail), IM (over ja er with NewtJa er), blogging (with log) and web hosting (with DS. Go here to check out a few live Newton web servers). Check.
• Bluetooth co ectivity. With a compatible card and the Blunt driver, I'm exchanging/synchronizing data with my desktop Mac and enjoyingwirele printing from my Newt.Check.
• A good sized hard drive. Ok, the UMPC has me beat, but with Paul Guyot's ATA Harddisk/Flashcard drivers, I can have a few gigs ofstorage ace available to me. Check.
• Digital music. MAD Newton lets me store and play Mp3's. Heck, Ican even stream internet radio and download music directly to my Newt fromiTunes 3. Check.
  
• Movies on the go. Well, I can watch The Sim o and South Park on my Newt. Check.
• Customizable wallpaper. Thanks to Avi'sBackdrop, I have a picture of my daughter as my Newton's "wallpaper," and there's a slew of other images I can choose from. Check.
• Word Proce ing/ readsheet a . Newtonworks. Check.
• An optional,external keyboard. Check.In fact, I'll say "good luck" to anyone trying to enter information onto a UMPC without the keyboard, whilethe 2100's handwriting recognition is great.
  
• A weight of about two pounds.Check.
• A 7" diagonal di lay. Actually, the Newt's di lay can rotate to eitherlandscape or portrait. Double check.
• Entertainment. Well, I can play games and readbooks, plus all of the other stuff I mentioned. So, check.
• Plays nice with both Windows andA le deskto . Ooh, sorry! This one a ears to be Newton only. Now how did that get on thelist?

Plus, the Newt gets a lot more that 2.5 hours of battery life (?!?), boots almost immediately sincethere's no hard drive, has a built in voice recorder and does all of the PIM stuff you'd want to do. Really, people.There's nothing to see here with "Origami." Move along.

Note: This is all a bit of tongue-in-cheekfun, folks.