[pdaddyo]

I presume you just won't get the battery performance out of x86 version though? Surely it's going to struggle.

[jfb]

To say nothing of heat.

[glhaynes]

And thicker/heavier. Plus fan noise. And several hundred dollars more expensive.

It'll be interesting to see if the Surface Pro feels more like an iPaddish-tablet or more like a traditional PC-ish tablet. Unless it's really good at what it does, I think it can easily end up doing more harm than good to Microsoft through Surface brand dilution, consumer confusion (x64 vs ARM, which apps run where), etc.