What do you think it's competing against? Certainly not a Kindle... Is the $600 price a steep one? I'm not sure. It's the same price as the iPad and not only c

What do you think it's competing against? Certainly not a Kindle... Is the $600 price a steep one? I'm not sure. It's the same price as the iPad and not only can you consume/play with it, but you can also do work. This has the potential of replacing your iPad+laptop combo. On the other hand, for $600 you could also buy a mediocre laptop that can run full Windows 7/8. But likely without a touch screen (but win8 works fine without one anyways so whatever). At the end of the day, if your budget is $600 it really comes down to "do you care about tablet use cases". If you do, then buy a win8 device like Surface over an iPad. If you don't then skip this form factor and get yourself a "normal" non-touch laptop with full Windows and likely better hardware. I guess my original meta point was that if this isn't worth $600, then the iPad shouldn't even be worth $500. Re: "but with an iPad you have 250k apps" - sure, but I'm confident that the apps will come to win8. It's a matter of time, and I don't think it will take too long. I expect lot more AAA apps to be released after October 26th.