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Originally Posted by Noah98
BTW, anyone who trashes the Asus, optimize it first (see above) and tell me if you change your mind. I believe someone posted that Windows 7 isn't very touch friendly. After Blue Dolphin, Origami, etc. I think you might see the potential.
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Yeah, after a lot of optimization, it might work better. But really, do people really want to do that?
In the end, does the startup time change to instant on, or will rotating screen actually be fluid, or will the screen becomes a couple of inches larger, or will the screen change to IPS technology, or will battery time actually be on par to the ipad?
Seriously not meant as an attack of some sort, but after all those tweaking, it'd still be comparing apples to oranges.
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This is why I find it strange when people complain that modern computers are not fast enough, or that there is not enough memory or storage speed on a Book reading device. Once uppon a time 66MHz 486 with 2 megs of RAM was good enough for a serious server supporting a dozen users working simultaneously on a company financial system.
Now, get off my lawn, dammit ... 
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That's the problem with IT. Every time hardware becomes faster, the software will also be more demanding.
One argument I had at work was over this statement "we don't need to spend time to optimize the software, because we can always upgrade the hardware". In the end, it doesn't matter to me. I'm not the one paying for the hardware OR the software.
But I know that when I program something for myself and I'm going for speed, I'll test it on some extreme limited hardware. Heck, there was a period where I tested my website on a Pentium 166 with 80MB RAM. It was speedy enough for 50 simultaneous stimulated users pounding on it. When the website went live on a quadcore machine with 8GB RAM, it literally flies. Even when 5000 users were pounding on it.
And that's probably one of the reason why a lot of IT-people are looking down on the ipad. It's using a phone OS they say. Not realizing that an OS that is optimized for a relatively slow smartphone, will be flying on the iPad-platform.
(instead of trying to put a heavy family car body on a 0.8 city car engine, why not put a lightweight city car body on strong engine?)