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Over the next couple of days, I'm going to load my full work programs on it: Quickbooks, Adobe Acrobat, MS Office 2003, etc. That will give me a full test.

As far as size, it is a bit smaller than my net book screen, and about 1/2 the weight. It is over a pound, which was heavier than I thought it would be. But it is actually fine. It feels substantial in my hands, not flimsy.

It easily slips into my portfolio, much better than my netbook. The touch screen is a better interface than the touch pad. For portability, the touchscreen is better than a mouse. I like the stylus.

I need to install a few print drivers as well, as one thing I do offsite is tag materials for shipments. Sometimes I need to fix the tags. This should be pretty easy. I connected a mini bluetooth keyboard to the unit. Worked well. I just hooked up an old bluetooth mouse. Both work at the same time. I will probably look for a slightly better Bluetooth KB.

So it can be a mini-netbook or a pure slate. Nice.

And to the question on the processor capability.

On the "Windows Experience" tabs, it shows the following score:

Processor: 2.7
Memory: 4.4
Graphics: 4.4
Gaming graphics: 2.5
Hard Drive: 5.3

My high power desktop is:
Processor: 7.4
Memory: 7.4
Graphics: 7.4
Gaming graphics: 7.4
Hard Drive: 5.9

For the Slate, here are the specs:

Processor Atom Z540 1.86 (Dual Core!)
RAM 2.0 GB
OS - Win 7 Pro 32bit

I'd prefer more RAM, but I expect it will work fine. Seems OK so far.