It is all relative, the way the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) is referred to as old.

It was less than three years ago (March 9, 2006) that Microsoft finally reveled their Origami mystery project at the CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany. According to “Pen Computing’s article “Microsoft reveals “Origami” Ultra-Mobile PC“:
“In the best Tablet PC tradition where Microsoft re-invented the pen computer that had been around for a good decade and a half, Origami-spec PCs use capitalized letters - Ultra-Mobile PC, making it look more like an official product category or even trademark“. Pen Computing also observed that “The UMPC was somewhere between traditional PDAs and Tablet PCs.”

The UMPC never really took off as Microsoft hoped, and today there are still only a number of UMPCs around, as there was a small section of the market who found them useful and could afford them. There was probably a larger section of the market who thought a UMPC would be very useful but just couldn’t afford one.

One of the first UMPCs announced was the Samsung Q1. Last year Samsung released the third  version of its Q1 Tablet, now called the Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium. The specs have been improved to run Vista. It has a 1.33 GHz Intel Core Solo ULV (Ultra Low Voltage), 2GB of RAM and an 80GB Hard drive, 7 inch touch screen LCD.

The Operating System is of course Windows Vista Business - the only Vista edition which allows you to downgrade to Windows XP.

As CNET said in their review of the Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium:  “The new generation of similarly sized Netbooks do more and cost less than the Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium, putting another nail in the UMPC coffin.”