Oh, sure it won't be a top-of-the-line gaming PC, but that's IMHO not the use case - and it is a tradeoff for the small form-factor and hybridity of phone/PC. W

Oh, sure it won't be a top-of-the-line gaming PC, but that's IMHO not the use case - and it is a tradeoff for the small form-factor and hybridity of phone/PC. With what we know about the specs, it won't be a sluggish barely-usable netbook, either. Heavy number-crunching and mobility are always at odds; and while my gaming notebook is much beefier, it is also an order of magnitude(!) larger and heavier. The appeal here is "take your PC in your pocket, just plug it into any screen and off you go;" netbooks have IMHO failed to live up to this expectation by being 1.underpowered and 2.too bulky - this device seems to have the solution for #2 at the very least. So, while it won't be the best desktop PC you could get for this price, or the best smartphone you could get for this price (although for a smartphone, the specs are pretty good), you'd be getting both in one. I'm very curious to see how the integration between the two works out. TL;DR: "Doesn't beat the best desktop" does not imply "underpowered."