It must have been talked about many times before, but I wonder why the power consumption is so (relatively) high during boot and if it could be lowered by optimizing the boot process further. It would be nice even if most users keep their devices always on.

Over the past year there's been various attempts at reducing the boot time of desktop linux and couple of devs at Intel managed to boot an eeePC (ie. known specific hardware, like our tablets) in 5 seconds.

That said, if the tablet is otherwise considered suitable for one's purposes that 20+ seconds (booting from fast SD card; up to 40+ seconds if one goes overboard with applets running at startup) flies by fairly quickly.