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can run the copy of Home Landscape Architect 3D Pro Plus 2007

I'll be impressed if they can pull that off and still make it so I can carry it around like an iPad.

What I fear, however, is that they'll make this a hybrid that fails in both scenarios: not powerful enough to handle "3D PRo Plus 2007", yet too power hungry to let my wife watch 5 episodes of Desperate Housewives back to back.

Until I see production hardware, I'm on the fence.

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I'd be impressed if their copy of Home Landscape Architect 3D Pro Plus 2007 was even remotely usable with a touch interface it wasn't designed to support.

If they pull this off, it will be dream come true. All will then boil down to 2 device that you carry, your windows phone and a protable awesome tablet cum pc.

They just showed a machine running core i5 with 4 GB ram. You think it won't run on a PC with that spec?

I think it will. Now show me a PC with that spec with the form factor and battery life - i.e. usage pattern - of an iPad. Your ARM tablet wont be able to run legacy software. Your x86 tablet wont have 12 hours of battery life and be thin and cool (in both senses of the word).

As a user it's a tradeoff. May be the x86 tablet won't have 12 hours battery life while still being as thin as the iPad but maybe I can trade a few hours of battery life or a few mm of thickness to get my legacy quicken app running on my tablet. What is cool is that as an end user I will have a choice to go either way.

Processors are getting better with each passing day. I don't think we are too far off from seeing x86 on a thin PC still getting a good battery life.

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