I did. Surprisingly, the one I played with was pretty effective. It does run GoogleOS when undocked. But a very neat trick is that whatever web pages you had open, documents open.. the moment you switch to the tablet, they follow. So, I had this website open in Windows 7, undocked and it showed up on the Doc as well.. in Chrome on both, of course.
The concept is pretty slick and I'm surprised how fast the unit is on it's own for what it does. The tablet portion is really effective at media display, better then I thought, with fairly fluid delivery of DiVX/XVID and Hulu. So, that was slick.
There are some big hitches, though. The keyboard is fairly blah, and it has the same problem I always have with touch typing on a touch screen.. that is to say, you can't. The response time on the touch screen isn't bad, but it still leaves some to be desired. The best features I didn't expect were a functional IR transmitter as a pad. That could come in really handy if I could program it to act as a remote control :)
If the price on it is right, it fits a good demographic.
I played with a few touchscreen panels this week, including a few aimed at the service industry (like waiters) that I thought were surprisingly effective. I think this could be a really interesting market segment this year. But after seeing the ones aimed at waiters, I realize those are the kind of units I have the most interest in seeing how they could be hacked into something else. They are very reminiscent of a Phillips Pronto but way more functional. Those units struck me as potentially incredibly interesting.
