I’m very much looking forward to the lousy reviews that this device will get. I don’t mean to indicate that this is a lousy device. I mean to indicate that people will try to shove this square peg up their round holes and then complain about the painful experience. Most technology reviewers now tend to review themselves in the context of a device rather than a device in the context of its usefulness (another reason why Brad is so different and so good).

This is not for the youtube/facebook/twitter crowd, although ironically, this can probably do all of those things without requiring stupid “apps”. My guess is that anybody who buys this to do time-wasting, self-distracting, relationship-avoiding, life-effacing elective leisure activities will be sad. This is the tablet that you buy to make money, not waste it. There are countless businesses who are spending a thousand dollars on an enterprise laptop to do jobs for which an enterprise tablet would be better suited. Those people just haven’t had an affordable option (my current primary enterprise slate cost 4 times as much) and may not be educated on how a slate can fit their needs. To that end, I’m glad that Hugo Ortega is a figurehead of this device’s deployment. He knows tablets and slates better than almost anybody.