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Microsoft seem to have a vision for their device which is quite different from the IPAD. Perhaps I'm reading between the lines too much.

Imagine a tablet that connected wirelessly to a nearby monitor and keyboard. Imagine arriving at your desk, placing your device in a charging station, picking up the mouse, and working on your device as a desktop.

Imagine picking up the device to go to a meeting, using it as a tablet to browse your colleagues slides while she talked. Imagine it's your turn. You touch the screen, and the projector takes its feed from your device screen instead, wirelessly. You can change slides by gesture, draw with your finger to illustrate your talk, and run the programs you have developed and make changes. After all, this is your development machine.

Laptops already do a lot of this but they are cumbersome. Mostly, people want to read on the move, and that's what a tablet is for, consuming data.

Anyway, that's where I think Microsoft is going, but it's been a long day and I'm talking out my ass. Would you actually find a device like this an improvement on a laptop?