1 GHz processor - we can either have it putter around an OS that is approximately 6.8 GB big, or speed through an OS that measures a meager 0.307 GB. Hmmm, I wonder which will be more snappy?
Bear in mind that iOS4.01 doesn’t require a 2+ GB Paging file, or consume 1 GB of cache - Apple does everything it needs to do within that 308 MB.
MS has no business even attempting to put Windows 7 on a tablet, to even think this is a reasonable solution demonstrates that they do not even have the most fundamental grasp of the problem at hand.
Forget that they are proposing a product with a 2-3 hr battery life against an established product with 10-12 hrs. Forget that there are 250K cheap or free Aps for the iPad, forget the superior display, multiple axis accelertometers, forget the seamless networking capability.
Just focus on the user interface. Balmer doesn’t have a clue where to even start.
I have an ASUS EEE PC T91MT tablet netbook. Runs Windows 7 and works just fine. Just disable all the Aero "eye candy" (which I do anyway), and it's plenty snappy.