When will hardware makers realize that you can't half-ass (or in this case, 1/8 to 1/16th-ass) the software stack for a new usage paradigm?  Assembled parts does not a system make.<p>Tablet PCs have sucked for years for the simple reason that they just wanted to sell touch-screen, keyboardless laptops.  They're completely different systems from the user's point of view, and just shoving an onscreen keyboard and handwriting recognizer doesn't cut it.  Proper tablet computing is 10 years of user interface and systems research that hasn't (afaik) been done.<p>Notice how apple started with an appliance (an ipod touch) and scaled it up to just be a larger appliance.  They recognized the problem and (not-very-cleverly) avoided it.<p>Sadly, we're going to see more bad ideas like this for a while; there are too many hardware vendors who simply don't understand the whole system stack.  It's no coincidence that the only vendor to do a tablet that wasn't a desktop OS bolted-with-crap is Apple, a full-system vendor.