I disagree with some of your comments on UMPCs but I agree that Origami is the wrong product.

For me, my UMPC (an OQO) is a working machine. I use it to do presentations, take notes in meetings (pen input is fantastic), work with email away from the office, and generally interact with the web. As an entertainment machine, it's too big and bulky. As a PDA, it's not always on in the background for alarms, nor is it instant on for quick use. It doesn't even attempt to be a phone. Still, for me, it is incredibly useful - far more so than the laptop it replaced.

However, the one thing it doesn't have is processor cycles to spare. Origami just screams dual core and a dedicated graphics card. I can't imagine doing anything beyond simple browsing if Origami was running on my OQO. Furthermore, I'd have to go back to keyboard input because handwriting recognition would slow to a crawl.

It's great eye candy and if I had a fast tablet PC I'd probably install it but for the UMPC market it's just too much, too soon. Maybe Via's Isaiah chip will change the equation. One can only hope.

It looks like they're stuck on the media center interface.