>Looked it up, and the only drawbacks I see are
>
>missing LAN port (I realize that I can hop to that via USB and am partially paranoid not to trust WiFi security)

I'm not sure if any tablet I've seen to date has a LAN port so it could be a drawback across the tablet world.

>unsure if having another GUI layer integrated top of Win7 will make things easier or more troublesome

It's a GUI layer that you can hide at will and get to the standard Win7 UI. For me, I can't imagine using the latter without a stylus though.

> [think patchdays, updates and so on... own GUI is one of the problem zones updating older droids]
>4H battery time ? (unsure if that is a Win, x86-architecture or screen connected issue)

4hours minimum. Its not an inflated number like most others tend to say and the guys using the prototype are claiming its even higher in real world use. Did you look at the videos of real time use of the ExoPC? There are a lot of them on YouTube. Everything from bootup time testing to playing WOW on it and using Office and other apps.

>
>will try it out if it becomes available over here

It is available to pre-order world wide. You just need to join the forum to order it. The problem for you will be the higher shipping costs :)

>(and hope for an alternate boot into android -

If I'm not mistaken, you'll be able to boot off the USB. Not sure if that helps you there.

>I was one of those trying to program Pen based Win3 HW (b/w 386SX devices)
>for mobile data input back last century - if anything will take MS place it will be a mobile
>OS based on droid or another linux, as MS hasn't got it right IMHO (only hearsay on Winmobile7 yet))
>
>There have been rumours about similar HW devices (Atom, HDMI,screensize) sporting MeeGo before XMas,
>and chances are about even that droid is faster ported to a device sold win Win than other way around...
>
>Hoping to get both worlds run into one.
>
>regards
>
>thomas