@Michael Scrip: Don't let him off that easy.

@ChuckGee: Hey chuck if you actually had ever used a tabletPC you would know that Microsoft has a handy little preset which makes all the icons and UI elements bigger for fingers. And if you had ever used a computer in the last 20 years you would also know that you don't have to run in 640x480 to scale up the…

@medopal: OMG Slate corporation, Microsoft and PenPoint computing must have sent their time agents 19 years into the future to find out what Apple would call their future Newton!

@exoren22: UMPC/Origami. Obviously.

@pixelpushing: Gotta say. I don't remember ever seeing a wake on a boat moving backwards. Sure looks like it accelerates into the side of the ship.

@egoods: Abu Dhabi.

Nononononono this is all wrong. They need to bring back Windows Smart Display. That's what this really wants to be. Run your laptop as a normal laptop then detach it and run it as a multi-touch wifi connected smart display. Damn Microsoft always brining out technology before it's ready.

@matthewabel: This is appropriate for every story.

@Philip Han: My last flight had the Wifi Icon on the cabin door. I got really excited but it was only for domestic flights over land. :(

@Man In Gauze is an obscure reference to Courage the Cowardly Dog.: But that's true of ALL cgi. No VFX supervisor worth his salt will use CG where a model would look better and cost less. People also cite movies like the Star Wars Prequels which probably actually have more miniature work in any one film than the…

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: You're spot on about the keyboard. I can't use it. It's also so short that my thumbs can't get to the top row without running into the top half of the phone.

@clak: I bought a Microsoft device which played mp3s in 2000. It kicked all kinds of ass and it had a touch screen.