Thread: ExoPC Slate has iPad looks, netbook internals, Windows 7 soul
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Old 02-02-2010, 05:30 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by zacheryjensen View Post
Really, if I was looking at the iPad and thought "Ugh, I hate apple, I want openness!" I would not look at windows based computers, I would look at android-based tablet competitors, like all the various MIDs that showed up at CES. They're going to be running on ARM based SoC platforms like Tegra 2 and will be much better suited to portable convenience computing than a windows based tablet.
Wouldn't that completely depend on what you want with it? I want to run Windows applications. Not some android applications that I don't know and probably won't be able to do exactly what I want them to do.

Why do I want a tablet? I want to be able to install the Complete National Geographic on it. I want to install Kindle4PC on it. I want to install Paint Shop Pro on it. And if it's even remotely possible, I want to install Visual Studio on it.

If you only want it to watch some movies, surf the web and maybe some books (epub, mobi?, ereader?), yes, I'd agree with you.
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