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Sony Duo 11. I have one as my primary dev machine and it works pretty well + I can play Civ 5 on the plane.

Well there is me. I wanted a dev machine that I could use as a desktop, laptop or occasional tablet. I ended up with a Sony Vaio Duo which is pretty good at what I want.

Or there is my (leaving) boss who has a laptop, desktop and iPad but is now going to a W8 tablet, probably a Surface Pro or Helix.

Or there is my (incoming) boss who has a desktop and an android tablet but would prefer a single device.

When I show my Duo off to people, no-one has said "what a bad idea". What they have said is "how much" and "can I have it".

While the surface pro itself may not be the right device, there are a lot of people who would like a good convertible device.

How the hell can a doctors visit run to $800?

I'd drop serious dollars on one of these if it had more ram and storage.

Windows 8 supports multitouch trackpads on new computers. Many older laptops can also get gesture support with the correct drivers. My 18 month old laptop has pinch support + all the edge swipe gestures.

For our CEO and GM, that's true. Add a citrix client and it could be an only computer for the rest of our staff except for me.

This post would have made a lot more sense if I had the slightest idea who any of the sports players or teams were.

Driving to ski fields will be fun:)

A friend of mine had $3m stolen by his business partner who simply wrote out $500k cheques and took them to the bank. The bank oked the cheques despite knowing that he had no signing authority.

Once it all came to light, the bank then sued my friend and drove him into bankruptcy.

Fuck banks

Could you do this with a high strength magnetic ring?

Your blog doesn't support comments. Is that a feature too?

As a developer I sympathise, but as a user I don't. I can understand not supporting IE 6 and 7, but not supporting 8 and 9 is not a feature, it's a lack of feature. It's saying that you aren't prepared to work with me the way I want to work.

It may be the right choice, but don't sell as that it's not.

Win Phone 7 Mango (should be released later this month, can get it now if you know where to look) has an IE9 based browser that supports html 5 etc

The moment a decent windows 8 tablet comes out, the iPads in our company will be gone.