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It's pretty speedy and responsive on my 2.4ghz C2D ThinkPad X200. Being a Developer Preview, it's also pretty useless. But, it does work as in today's keynote presentations. You can install apps on it.

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It works as in today's keynote... Does that mean it's a bit hard to navigate, and not all the apps work? They seemed to have a lot of technical problems in the keynote. My favourite was when they are holding a tablet up to the screen early on and he states "We're going to open the Bing app..." and a woman whispers over his shoulder (on a mic that everyone can hear) "No don't do that!"

The navigation is pretty easy, but as a WP7 user, I'm used to Metro paradigms.

Not all the apps work, some are just mockups and don't have any functionality (though they seem to be legitimately pulling data from the network, according to Wireshark).

It's not ready for regular use by anyone's standards, for sure. But it's very promising, very speedy, and has a pretty low memory footprint.

I'm OK with the demo goof ups.

Why do you say "it's also pretty useless"?

Many of the included apps aren't configurable, and there's just not much to the Metro side of things yet. It's good for an hour of poking around, though.

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