Atom is still way, way too slow for legacy programs, and that's supposed to be one of the "strengths" of x86 tablets. They may support them, but if they work slow on it, then it's all for nothing.
The tablet feels about as powerful as a good x86 laptop from six years ago. Clover Trail is faster than previous Atoms, and it's certainly helped by having a Flash disk instead of a slow tiny hard drive.
I haven't noticed a problem with Win32 desktop apps. It would certainly be too slow for something heavy-duty like the latest Visual Studio... But my use is more oriented towards Office, browsing and art software which it handles fine.
I haven't noticed a problem with Win32 desktop apps. It would certainly be too slow for something heavy-duty like the latest Visual Studio... But my use is more oriented towards Office, browsing and art software which it handles fine.