It will be a more general purpose computing device. The point of convergence is that you can use it in either mode, 'consuming' as a tablet, or 'creating' with

It will be a more general purpose computing device. The point of convergence is that you can use it in either mode, 'consuming' as a tablet, or 'creating' with a keyboard. But, _be reasonable_ with your expectations. It's not an iPad and won't have that polish. For a start there aren't _that many_ apps in the FOSS environment that are touch aware. Canonical has made a set, and provides a good development environment so that applications can be made touch aware. But, we're looking at Linux ala 2000, not ala 2015.