The $550 Acer Iconia W500 tablet (which comes with an attachable keyboard base) got 4:06 on a Cnet video playback battery drain test. http://reviews.cnet.com/t

The $550 Acer Iconia W500 tablet (which comes with an attachable keyboard base) got 4:06 on a Cnet video playback battery drain test. http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3126_7-34546373-2.html?tag=rvwBody http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3... Acer isn't exactly known for brilliant power engineering, so a better vendor could likely do better. But this also wasn't exactly a high-powered chip, either. So this is probably a plausible baseline for battery usage in Win 7. They need to beat this by quite a bit in Win 8, or the tablets will be a tough sell.