I'm viewing this on a transformer. It's only competing if you buy the keyboard dock, which I didn't. And it's a bad competition, because it runs a tablet OS, with tablet software. Much like Windows 8 on the tablet, without the desktop mode.

That's the flipside of my post, where trying to use a tablet like a full computer because clunky and silly^.

I'm not sure that market exists.

My iPad is fantastic for browsing the web, watching Netflix, playing games, and reading books. But next time I need to recompile a C++ project encompassing a couple of million lines of code, I would really miss the quad-core i7 in my laptop...

So the Surface ( RT version ) is suppose to be a tablet / notebook hybrid. Something u actually could do work on, but only if u were forced too. To that end it needs sufficient power, visual fidelity, application support and full fledge interface ( ie full keyboard + touch support at the OS level ).

All those people complaining $499 is too expensive for a 10" tablet can now go and buy a $399 Nexus 10. I look forward to lots of stories on how overpriced Apple are (at least MS still have some relevance - for people who want things like Office, the keyboard, better compatibility with other Windows devices, the Surface has no competition).