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Installed it on my 32GB Touchpad last night; here are my observations so far (YMMV).

Pros:

+ It's an alpha, but impressively stable. No more than a couple force quits all night. No random reboots.

+ It feels a world faster than webOS already.

+ Battery life isn't optimized, but wasn't horrible, either.

+ Touchstone worked for me; even had a chime when docked.

+ Many apps I restored to the device worked wonderfully.

+ Did I say apps? I'll say it again: Apps.

Cons:

+ Obviously, not all apps work perfectly.

+ Wi-Fi was flaky on 802.11n (5Ghz). Turning on and off a few times fixed it.

+ Market reported being offline when everything else on the unit was connecting fine. See above Wi-Fi fix.

+ Market is filtering many apps, but here's a fix: http://forums.precentral.net/other-tablets/303534-how-guide-...

+ Unexplained slowdowns from time to time. It's Alpha. It happens.

+ Will wipe your /media/internal directory for repartitioning. Back it up first.

Overall, I'm really impressed with the speed and result of the CM7 Team's effort although I find myself missing the multitasking/switching component of webOS (but not the slowness).



webos user here. App switching, do you mean the card system ? I think its terrible in comparison to holding down the home button on any android. Hold down the home button and it shows you all the recent apps.


There's pros and cons to both systems; it's merely a preference of mine after having a mixture of both Android and webOS devices for a couple of years now.


A lot of people don't know that you can move the cards around so that you can arrange two cards to be right next to each other, if you could speed up your workflow that way. I also don't like how you have to keep the home button pressed pon android, may be it is just my phone, but I would rather have an instant response to pressing home button rather than a timed one.




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