I wasn't planning on running Photoshop or Crysis. I don't even run them on my half-dozen other computers, but I do run hundreds of low-requirement programs. Th

I wasn't planning on running Photoshop or Crysis. I don't even run them on my half-dozen other computers, but I do run hundreds of low-requirement programs. The "full OS" experience, to me, is not simply side-loading either. I want an OS that was built for general purpose computing from the get-go. The target audience for this does not seem to be limited to corporate use and developers. It seems to be for anyone who just wants general purpose computing in a highly portable format. That's me. Furthermore, corporate users is not a small market - so I wouldn't say "limited", even if that were the case. > The cheapest win8 device with the ability to side-load? 800$ .. The cheapest OSX device? 999$ dollars. Right, but it's a bad comparison because one of them is Windows and the other is OS X. One of them is a touch enabled transformer, the other a laptop. > Our best bet for an open platform, is Android... Maybe what you want is an open platform. That's fine, but I don't care about how open the platform is. I just want Microsoft's new premium device with their premium OS because it seems to do exactly what I want it to. We'll see though, maybe I'll be disappointed.