Will my next gadget be an Origami Tablet?
Tim has hit the nail on the head. The Origami Tablet will suffer the same fate of the Portable Media Center devices if it doesn't have battery life and cost less that $1000.
For me I might use the Origami for notetaking and watching video.
I have tried the Archos AV-700 for entertainment purposes and I ended up getting a Dell 700m since it cost almost the same with more functionality. I think I would end up with the same dilemma here as well, since most laptops at the $1000 price point have faster processors and can accomodate more RAM and hard disks.
I think Toshiba is closer to the mark here with their wireless screen.
What I would actually like to see is a full functional PC that can function as a tablet, but dock with the keyboard and the cdrom with an additional battery. Sort of like Motion computing meets Toshiba WIFI screen.
So in a nutshell I would be ok with the 2-3 hours battery life when disconnected from the base, but I could dock and have my 4-6 hours. I would also be ok with additional weight.
Maybe DualCor should look at designing something like this. Since they have the dual processor model, you could run on the PPC processor when you are in PPC tablet mode, and switch to Windows table mode when docked. The best of both worlds...
Anyway to answer the question, if the device can accomodate 1-2GB RAM, have a Core Solo or Duo CPU and last > 3 hours, and cost $800-$1000, I think it would be very tempting...