> The market hasn't suddenly changed in the intervening years to one that wants that kind of form-factor. I'll agree that most of the market doesn't want that

> The market hasn't suddenly changed in the intervening years to one that wants that kind of form-factor. I'll agree that most of the market doesn't want that kind of form factor, but two segments in which the convertable tablet has really taken off are in the education and health care industries. I work with a few schools that manage to hand out tablet + stylus + keyboard laptops to all of their students and do pretty well with it. My school isn't a fan of the Surface due to serviceability issues (non-replaceable battery being a big one) and that it is a great tablet, but gives up some ground in the general-use laptop area to do that. The other schools in our group share the same sort of sentiments.