If not the ipad then what instead?

[Rainbird]

michael_stutzer said:

Rainbird said:

I know WOA won't run legacy software, but I don't see any reason you can't have good x86 tablets. They're probably not going to be as slim as their ARM brethren, but I think that's a worth tradeoff. Ultrabooks have shown that it's certainly possible to create slick x86 hardware.

Because they will basically be a laptop.  They will be thick and power hungry devices, complete opposite of what makes the tablets popular. Transformer Prime with its dock lasts around eighteen hours, those x86 hardwares will be lucky to last a quarter of it.

They'll be thicker and more power hungry than their ARM counterparts, that we can agree on, but I think manufacturers will be able to create compelling hardware still. We still haven't seen what they can do with Ivy Bridge for example.