Well, I dunno. I've been runnin Ubuntu 12.04 on a middle-of-the-road desktop and a semi-netbook (2GB or RAM and Celeron instead of Atom, but not a screaming machine by any stretch). Had it running now for about a year, and I haven't had problems. Four or five times I've had an application freeze ...

Well, I dunno.

To my mind, tablets are for casual or web apps. They generally have Atom processors (because these are low-powered enough not to need cooling fans), and they generally have solid-state drives on the order of 10 to 100 GB. Screens are generally smaller than netbooks, though there's ...