Let see if we can rationally answer the question, is iPAD a UMPC (Ultra Mobile Personal computer) ? What does Intel or Microsoft think and what is our UMPC.com’s official position, read on.
If we ask Intel answer will be most likely no. Why ? because Intel defined UMPC as having x86 (official term from Intel is IA – Intel architecture) processor and chipset
Lets try asking Microsoft( Or Origami folks). Most likely answer here will be no as well because they defined UMPC as running a windows based Operating System.
As you can read and our History & Definitions section. iPAD fits our definition of UMPC without any modifications at all.
Here is the text from that section:
Definition
The current widely-used definition for UMPC is: A mobile device with diagonal screen size from 4″-10″ running any OS and supporting more than one computing/communication function.
Further Details:
Power – A mobile device has a battery by definition (at least for now)
Hardware Platform – No restriction
Touch screen – Common but not required
Next time : so what is Intel and Microsoft up to and Apple’s hardware plans, hint: Intel’s new marketing designation: Smart-phone marketing manager, Apple buys chip design start-up in Austin ?
