Found footage: The inevitable Windows 7 tablet vs. iPad video

I completely agree... pages of static icons is rather plain and un-interesting. I like the way Android has it, with the ability to add widgets and have pages of widgets and moving your app icons where you like. I shouldn't have to go in an app to see the weather, then leave the app and hunt down another app icon and go into that app to check my email. I want a little control and customization.. that's what I want.

Outlook!! I really love having outlook but I prefer my iPad! I don't think Microsoft get's it. They are just making a mini computer. People who have iPads are not looking for a mini computer we just want our iPads. If only ALL of these companies would make that are NOT trying to be iPad / iPhone killers they might just come up with a product that could compete. People who love the iPad are not going to be impress with that device. Can I run my iPad / iPhone apps on that device? No! I'm happy with my iPad. If they want to make an iPad killer then they should have done it BEFORE the iPad came out! Come late to the market makes you A$$ out!

LOL

Windows plain sucks. It looks awfull and it so freckin slow compared to Apple. Just watch it die the longer you use it and the more you install on it. One word, "Garbage". It is and will forever be Garbage and I don't care how you wanna defend it. Windows SUCKS.

What's the point of putting win7 in a tablet? It's a great os, but as a tablets os there might be some small glitches and bugs. Also, the battery life. How long before each charge? With so much running will it over heat?

The fact that you are comparing a full-fledged desktop OS to the iPad says a lot about the iPad :)

I don't have an iPad yet but see problems with this.

First iPad is a very underpowered rev one device. It is obviously short on RAM so comparing it to a device released almost a year later is sily. Especially when Apple will likely rev iPad in time for the mass Win Tablet arrivals.

In other words get back to us when these Win tablets are widely available. Further by that time Apple should have a Cortex A9 based iPad with a suitable amount of RAM for sale.

Further having a SD slot or a USB port does not add bulk to a device. Especially in the case of an SD port. This really erodes the writers credibility. Just looking inside the iPad reveals plenty of space for such ports. It is enough to make one barf when seeing such comments in print.

Finnally it has already been pointed out but the big question is run time versus device weight. They might actually get better app performance in some cases but if that means two hours of battery life it isn't even in the same ball park as iPad.

They keyboard looked miserably narrow. And it was somewhat amusing that they took three attempts at the video to launch... whatever it was. Doubly weird that they compared Google Earth (native-ish) on the Hanvon, to Google Earth on the iPad using airplane movement mode, but not the standard mode, at least not initially.

Airplane movement mode REQUIRES a mouse/keyboard. It isn't catered to standard gestures.
But, had Earth been completely vanilla, the initial "awkwardness" wouldn't exist.

The iOS way is disorganized for many apps, and folders aren't really a perfect solution. But the Win7 way (start menu) is difficult to navigate with point/touch devices; on most implementations, the hit locations for individual items in the Start menu prove to be far too small.

I.e., both are flawed; the iOS model breaks down with too many apps installed, while (as the video shows) the Win7 model is too imprecise to reliably pick a specific app on a touch device.

There's probably some third model out there that people haven't thought of yet. (Spotlight on iOS doesn't count, though I admit that's how I launch many things.)

Pfff guys, it's windows, give it a rest, it's about time they will burry that dinosaur. Even with a 2010 dress it remains a dinosaur compared to os x or ios4 . i need to run it for 1 stupid app in parallels and trust me it may be waaay better then Vista, it's still Microsoft Windows, and it will remain a fossile. Nothing competes with ease of use of an Apple OS driven system. Btw that video is biass as you see the iPad user hesitating when selecting stuff, so its BS.

Just ignore her.

PS Her real name is Neil, or something. It's got bigger issues to deal with than IOS. Poor soul.