If it came with a dtp program comparable to serif pageplus, a good word processor like libre, a minimized word processor like notepad but with spellcheck, a video editing program similar to windows movie maker, a multitrack recording software nearly identical to adobe audition 1.5, a good pressure sensitive drawing program like manga studio, a good photo editing program like paint.net, a video and audio file converter, a ebook file converter, a pdf maker/editor/reader, a front facing camera of pretty much any resolution and skype, and android 4.1 already on dual boot with clear specific instructions how to root it, it would replace 99% of my work and play gadgets
OH LORDY!
You do this with
gadgets !?!?
What do you use your computer for then?
Most of this stuff is theoretically "runnable" on the current Pandora, though not simultaneously, of course.
I would not do it, though... My current "complaints" with The Pandora Experience all stem from two things: small screen/way
too much DPI and a keyboard which I'm still trying to get to grips with.
Some people seem to find the keyboard OK. For me simply the existence of the keyboard is a
must, so I really "appreciate" it and don't want to sound like I'm complaining overly much... but I find the keyboard is not as good as it has been on some other
PDAs I've had. I don't know why, exactly. I think it's a bit more crammed and definitely thumb typing oriented; using it with something like 4 fingers+thumb on your knee or on a desk it starts to feel very "rubbery".
I know in the screen department I'm probably in a totally outnumbered minority when I say: could be bigger with
less pixels. Only time I really appreciate the DPI is while browsing with Firefox (i.e. no need to zoom in device) and then I find I'm constantly bringing the device within a few inches of my face (which means I'm "zooming optically" without paying attention"

--> won't do for extended periods of time.
Only "increase" I'd want in the display are more contrast even when backlight is dimmed and more speed.
I think the device you're envisioning, though, is not a UMPC but what they call "ultrabooks" these days. It's not about the CPU or GPU requirements, it all boils down to work ergonomics. If you try to use software like that on the Pandora you "devalue it" to a gimmick running gimmicky software "because it can".
Run what was designed for it and you got a real workhorse, not a gimmick.
I'm still figuring out whether the Pandora is a good replacement for my Palm, but it definitely isn't a
full time replacement even for my laptop, much less a desktop...