The thing is, the Touchpad already had a dual core cpu built in. I can't really imagine that HP has put the effort of completely porting webos over to a differ

The thing is, the Touchpad already had a dual core cpu built in. I can't really imagine that HP has put the effort of completely porting webos over to a different hardware platform, but I think that instead they might have tested the enyo toolkit on the iPad and have seen tremendous performance improvements. Those, I think, can be attributed to the superiority of MobileSafari (having hardware acceleration and having a very fast Javascript VM being the primary sources of better performance).