This one'c going to be a big post so I'll split it into 3 topics (size, bezel, screen)

@retsaw
Sorry about switching them around, I thought I covered enough ground that we wouldn't be discussing screen resolution and screen size anymore, and that I was enthusiastic to see your views on having a tablet running MIUI (with optimizations like I've listed).

Firstly: Size.

Has anyone here actually tried carrying an iPad around campus You notice after a while that it is very large and awkward and its actually very comfortable and small in your bag. However, the iPad may be awkward to carry by hand/grapsed in arm, it was actually to the point where it was bearable even when on foot for >25mins. And it certainly was better grasping it with a protector than continuously going into my bag to retrieve it. I've just graduated from the University of Queensland, and this is one of the largest campuses around fyi. So Steve Jobs, you've done a great thing on finding the largest size bearable, congratulations and good luck.
In addition, if you compare a tablet with 16:9 10" screen with thin bezel you see it is less wide but slightly longer than the iPad. But it's still slightly larger but within the confines of the iPad's size. I would love to grab a tablet I've described and do the whole "campus test", but money doesn't grow on trees here.

Yes I realize this point, but I already took it into consideration. Well I agree Apple are notorious when testing their devices, and strive to get what they believe is perfection. But remember this is their idea of perfection, yours may vary. Example Apple thinks the perfect phone is the iPhone 4, I disagree because I much prefer the Milestone/Milestone2 (qwerty + removable battery + removable storage). Now with bezels it's kind of trickky and it all depends on the individual. Individuals with longer hands and fatter thumbs, will have increased chance of touching the screen when grabbing the tablet in portrait -style. There's three ways of grabbing the tablet (sandwhich, newspaper and book).
Firstly if you grab it the way you would a sandwhich-rotated (thumbs are parallel to the index, displaying the anatomical snuff box) it would maximize comfort and grip but it would also touch a large portion of the touchscreen. So I would grab this if I were watching a movie in portrait mode where my thumbs would not hit any links/buttons.
Secondly the newspaper method (your thumb wedges the tablet to the joint of the 4th and 5th phalanges of your index, and stabilizes with the lower-medial palm) was how Apple designed the iPad to be used. What this grip does is allow as much contact with your thumb on the bezel as possible, while clenching the bottom with only your index finger support. I can tell you after reading some scientific articles in that position for a while (>50min) you get a cramp on the medial-side of that joint in your surgical-hand one hand (for me it was my right-hand because I have better control and power there utilizing the left hand to flip pages every so minutes that I unconciensely avoided this). This can be easily avoided if the user knows about it and switches hands to do the page flicking. Overall, the amount of grip to the tablet is medium because the bottom is the slightly more important side needs contact but it only has one point of grip since the palm merely stabilizes the grip instead of providing full grip support.
Thirdly the book method. Ever grab a small novel and the way the page opens in a weird angle after reading for some time? Well that's because you slowly and unknowingly shift your grip from the newspaper-way to the book-way. This is when the top side is gripped with the medial-side of the thumbs (like in the newspaper method but your hand rolled to the side), your thumb grabs the tablet with hard and durant part of your thumb while not using the thick bezel. The lower part of the tablet is gripped (not stabilized) with the middle palm and all the fingers in an array. What you achieve is better grip than the newspaper way but your thumbs now only require half the bezel. Also, the endurance of this grip is higher and this is due to the fact that your inner-palm grabs the side of the tablet to relieve the stress from the thumb and fingers. With a trimmed bezel on the landscape sides, the user must adopt this form of gripping in portrait-style, if they want to avoid touching the screen, and the advantages are apparent. You can test all these grip methods yourself on a tablet or a thin notebook/netbook to get a better idea of this philosophy.
So you see, the Apple isn't perfect for me because I very much value those last cm's of screen-estate from the sides, and this is true when you open (MS/Open)Office and start viewing large webpages.