[adorno]

Just like BetaMax and 8-Track...

That's proof positive that, you refuse to look at the real world, and instead, you have tunnel vision, and you can't see anything beyond your narrow scope of thought.

8-Track was popular for a bunch of years, just like the iPhones and iPads have been popular for a few years, and, just like the example you picked, they will have been popular for a few years, having been replaced by something superior, like the Windows 8 gadgets, namely WP8 cellphones and Surface tablets. But, like anything else in technology, even those will be popular for a few years, to be replaced by the next "big thing". But, you haven't been paying attention, apparently, to notice how that's the way of technology. Try to keep up.

[null and void]

Promise me you’ll check back with me in, say, three years on this?

[RegulatorCountry]

... but it’s not a new thing, it’s old things shoehorned into someone else’s new thing for market diiferentiation.

It’s a netbook with a touchscreen, apparently, but that is yet to be seen in the wild. Of what utility is the redundancy in comparison to a netbook, ultrabook or Macbook Air? Particularly with the likely price premium.

Microsoft fans could just purchase a cheap Asus along with an Android tablet and come out ahead monetarily, without a garbled, bowdlerized half measure untried device.