[georgemcbay]

illumin8 pretty much covered this already but the reason I'm hoping for a good x86 version of this type of system is so I can run existing dev tools on the system, like Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc. AFAIK there is no plan for the ARM version to be able to run x86 software (and such emulation would be painfully slow even if they tried it).

My current ASUS Transformer is great for tablet stuff (touch UI games, the stereotypical 'couch surfing', etc) and the the keyboard dock makes it great for things like lengthy email writing, web forum participation and the basic types of word processing I do (not very demanding in that area). Where it falls down is that I can't really use it as a serious self-hosted development box. A similar system based on x86 and Win8 could be my everything-box: tablet, notebook, development machine, etc.