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Comment by mattmaroon | Hacker News Reader

There's more to disruption than mere hardware. Apple's tight control of the OS severely limits functionality and prevents it from being the truck. Apple is not known for giving up control. What a computer can do is not limited by hardware anymore, the iPad could run full on Windows or OSX I'd suspect.

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I think software is part of the disruption, some apps will appear on the iPad that are better than those on the Mac. Apple's tight control means a simpler experience for most, there is no malware, spyware or viruses for iOS AFAIK.

The iPad could run those OSes and it's not really down to Apple if you replace the whole OS, though Windows isn't available for ARM and nor is OSX in it's desktop form. Linux could be made to work on it. Android has already been made to work on the iPhone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO2KQHkt4A

There will be others playing this game.

(But they won’t run “full” Windows or OS X. That has failed every time it has been tried in the last ten years. Ask Microsoft.)

The HP Slate will run Windows 7.

For most of the past ten years, a processor that could run full Windows with reasonable power consumption did not exist. They do now.

Previous tablets were based around handwriting processing, which was also terrible.

The same HP Windows 7 Slate that was killed off in April? (http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packard-to-kill-win...)

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