I mean, am I only one that sees a 'powerful' tablet as a drawback?
Size, weight and battery life are three of the most important features of my iPad. Further, the non-fragmentation of the App Store is nice, a 1G iPad can run pretty much everything a 2G iPad can.
Why would I want to buy in to an ecosystem where developers are worrying about developing to the lowest common denominator? Would they consider optimizing their App for the 10% of their market that bought the Core i5 tablet vs for the ARM (in a total market size with 5 % of the tablet market)?
What benefit would you really see from a tablet with so much processing power? A I going to sacrifice all of that battery life so I can render video faster?
Ok, but what if they just let the tablet run all the apps that work on the desktop. Great. Now my overpowered tablet that has two hours of battery life and has a fan in it is running apps that aren't even optimized for a tablet form factor?
This does not bode well.
