You can buy a Windows 8 tablet for $500: http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-rt/home http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with

You can buy a Windows 8 tablet for $500: http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-rt/home http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-... This is closer to a Macbook Air competitor (with keyboard) in my opinion, that also has the ability to be a tablet and runs x86 applications. Given that, the price makes more sense.