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Hey - it will be running a full-screen WPF application which is displaying live data from a datalogger attached via USB.
Hence, the graphics core needs to be able to handle WPF well. There are a lot of sweet tablets out there, but they're all Android.

Oh - and the user will be interacting with the application purely through touch, but they will have a bluetooth headset for receiving audio from the device (ah! another requirement, it must have bluetooth).
The WPF application provides an iPad style interface, so the user doesnt have to deal with the clunkiness of Windows 7 with their fingers.

Looks like 'coming soon' solutions are your only answer really.

Doesn't look like Atom solutions will deliver, and most of the professional Windows tablets are Atom at this time.

However, you could look at the Panasonic tablet (H1) as a sort of template for what you might be looking for, only with a little more juice under the hood.

Yeah - its looking this way. Currently I only require development hardware so I can settle for something less than perfect so long as its not too expensive.
2011 looks like the year of the tablet, the big manufacturers just need to pull their fingers out! Lenovo has a nice one coming, pretty much the front runner for me - when they name it and ship it!

Wow they are expensive.. a bit too pricey and the CPU specs are a bit lacking - see my response to "ArmpitofDeath" for why...

Thanks - but Im only looking for a 'slate' style tablet - no keyboard, no clamshells. And its about 4 times the budget (-;

You said good for buisness use. No physical keyboard isn't good buisness. #JustSaying Also I used to do .NET and WPF development on the XT2.

For slates though check this out: www.windows.com­/slate

I agree, a keyboard is important, the 'business usage' in this case is medical, with the user usually standing so the interface will be touch driven, but Android and iPad are not suitable because there are too many applications in the business world that just require Windows. If the customer is spending $1000+ on the hardware, I want them to be able to connect a keyboard when they need to, and use their existing software licenses.

Thanks for the suggestion, its a nice looking piece of hardware.

re: WPF on a touch device - how do you find the touch-driven abilities of WPF? Does it easily support all the de-facto gestures that iPad users have come to know and love? Or have you had to rely on re-engineered controls?

WPF has a lot of great built in events for touch control. In general there is a lot of great documentation out on programming touch with Windows 7.

Yeah - the core problem on the Windows side seems to be the programmers not grasping the actual touchability of an interface properly. Hopefully some iPad tablet experience for WPF programmers will result in better experiences.