The good: 1. the magnesium body is tough and very weather resistant. Similar to Nikons current camera line. 2. stand and keyboard built in make this a machine

The good: 1. the magnesium body is tough and very weather resistant. Similar to Nikons current camera line. 2. stand and keyboard built in make this a machine you can do very serious work on 3. 600 dpi sample rate for drawing means serious design work can be done as well. 4. Like the Xbox, Zune HD, natural keyboard, arc mouse, and their live cams: When Microsoft decides to design it usually is awesome. the bad: 1. They said how much they believe in their partners yet only one application was shown off (lightroom). No special hardware or software partnerships. 2. No discussion on ports, actual cpu speed, ram, bus speed, or video capability. 3. no discussion of pricing. 4. The names are confusing for consumers: windows rt, surface, etc. they should have just said its all windows 8. Windows 8 for arm and windows 8 for intel. easy. 5. It was not available the day of the anouncement. The BIGGEST problem: They did not show how this device is worth buying as part of your Micosoft ecosystem of experience and devices. How does it work with windows phone? they did not show it doing tricks with xbox and smartglass. They did not show how this device should be important to you.