But really.....
Apple fan/foes aside, given Dell, HP, Asus and others are also investing heavily in similar devices with various other OSes.....
...can someone explain to me why this 'form factor' is desirable or better than a netbook or similarily priced dinky laptop. I don't get it - seems to me MS has already over-egged the tablet PC pudding and its unlikely they've really seen a return in the investments they made in that direction, certainly with their earlier iterations of Windows and Office even if it suddenly makes sense in 7 & 2010.
I've seen the demos and read the hype from both Apple and its opposition, still I just don't see it. Perhaps its just there's a huge raft of consumers out there I don't understand - if so what are they going to be using it for that wouldn't be improved by a real keyboard [its not just the haptic-free typing I'm thinking of, but the loss of screen estate when you actually need to do something] or the ability to plug in cameras, printers, phones, memory sticks and various other increasingly ubiquitous gubbins.