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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Look up the Asus EP121, it came out in January. A very thin tablet, coreI5 processor, 4GB RAM. Almost as thin as the Xoom. Weight around 2 pounds. Battery life about 4 1/2 hours of regular computing, 3 hours flash video over WiFi.
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Actually, it weighs just over 2.5 lbs. And it's much thicker than the Xoom - the Xoom is 10mm thick; the Asus 17mm thick.
(The weight is the biggest issue with tablets IMO, since you really have to hold them by the bezel, which means you are basically using your fingertips to hold it. Which is why the ipad dropping from 1.6 to 1.3 lbs was such a big deal (and that is almost 5 oz.)
I don't know about the Xoom's battery life, but the ipad 2 gets over 10 hours of battery life watching video with wifi on - and the one review I was able to find said that it could just barely make it through one streaming HD netflix movie.
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Now imagine this with the new Sandybridge processors. Battery life will improve about 1.5 fold. You could build a smaller, 10.1" version weighing only 700 grams or so. A slightly improved interface. We are almost there already.
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We're not close. The Sandybridge processor will use less power than the i3, but the device itself won't use less power.