The performance is good, especially considering that it's loading a much heavier OS, but it looks to be at least twice the size and the interface looks somewhat clunky (chunky zooming, cramped keyboard, and please tell me that trackpad wasn't thrown in because it's necessary). It does leave a lot of questions about price, battery life, idle time, and cooling. Anybody know if there are any netbooks out there that don't require a fan?
In other tablet news, HP claims to have a WebOS device out in Q1 of next year. WebOS itself is great, but its app community is as dead as a norwegian blue parrot.
Even though there's nothing on the horizon yet except some Chinese knock-offs, I'm still betting that Android will be Apple's biggest competitor in this sector. I expect Win7 tablets to basically keep the same niche market that Windows tablets have cultivated for the last decade. Call it the high-performance tablet market.
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