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Originally Posted by Sregener
Never said it was. The problem is that as easy as a touchscreen is to use, it is a horrible interface for real productivity. You can't type very fast on the darn things, for one. Selecting text is a chore. And editing photos beyond applying presets? Forget about it!
Once you add a keyboard and a mouse to a tablet, you really do have a laptop. And by then, you might as well have a laptop, and then we're back to talking about OS X, which IMO is still best-of-breed when it comes to productivity.
The issue is that Win8/RT is trying to make a tablet into a productivity device, and it just plain isn't going to work. My PowerBook has a 15" screen - what tablet comes close to that size? Sure, it only has 1.5GB of RAM, but it also has 80GB of permanent storage, plus a DVD writer. What tablet has that kind of data capacity? Tablets are about consuming content, not creating it. And no OS is going to change that reality.
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As I have already said, it does work. The Surface enables all the productivity most people need in a mobile device. It's replaced my personal laptop and is far better at that than any laptop I've ever owned. Instant on, all day battery life, much less bulk, light weight, 96 GB storage (with memory card), a touchscreen interface, and the ability to remote control a PC if I really need to. It has a keyboard, but when you don't need it it simply snaps off or folds back. Laptops don't do that.
It's not for everyone, and it doesn't replace a home PC, but you overestimate what the majority of the general public needs or wants. Kind of like I did when the iPad was announced.
But if you still need a laptop Windows still has that market covered. It's not like they are forcing you into a handful of proprietary models like some other companies do.