[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
When talking about W8 tablets there needs to be two discussions - one on the value of a $499ish RT version and another on a $799ish Pro version.

As for RT, I think MS hasn't managed people’s expectations well and people will expect much more "Windows" than they'll actually get. The benefit is that all the RT apps are touch optimized so the actual user experience will be (theoretically) consistent. Here's a great article on what RT can't do.

Right now, there are 5,562 total apps in the Windows Store worldwide—3,488 in the US—and 94 percent of them are Windows RT. compatible. That's a decent number, and includes support from heavy hitters like Netflix, Evernote, and Amazon. The top-notch first party services from Microsoft help too. But Android 3.0 Honeycomb got rightly skewered for having such a lackluster offering of available tablet apps, and RT's numbers are in the same ballpark. Among the missing notables: Twitter, Facebook, and Spotify. Again, x86 Windows tablets won't have this problem; they can run anything that works on your desktop today.

Thankfully, RT does come with that full Office 13 suite. Office RT will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, and syncs your documents over SkyDrive.

http://gizmodo.com/5952934/what-windows-rt-cant-do​

Full W8 on a tablet is going to be problematic because the screen resolution is going to make it very difficult to interact with non-touch optimized apps and the OS itself. Say anything you want about iOS and Android but their simple to use both at the OS and app level. I think people are going to get frustrated with accessing multiple cascading drop-downs and nested commands to find and do simple tasks. So the good news is you can access anything on a W8 Pro device. The bad news is it isn't going to be simple or fun.

The bigger problem with using the W700 as a traditional PC productivity machine lies in the rendering of the Windows desktop. A resolution of 1920 by 1080 on an 11.6-inch screen makes for tiny fonts, icons, and scroll bars. And because all of these interface elements were so small, I had trouble seeing text in the URL field of Internet Explorer, for example. Likewise, using touch gestures to collapse and exit out of windows--or, for that matter, just navigating around the basic Windows experience that I've been using since Windows 3.1--was a challenge.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/windows/3402233/acer-w700-review/?pn=1​

So in the end RT users could be disappointed, at least initially, about how little content's available. Pro users could be disappointed with the desktop experience based on the behavior of the non-touch optimized functions in the OS and apps they use. Some of you guys have formed an opinion and are defending it before these devices are even in people's hands. I really don't have an opinion and am taking notes from the sidelines. I'll form one once both RT and Pro versions have been out for a few months and can understand not only how well they run Office and native x86 apps but can also evaluate their battery life, performance (especially ARM and Atom versions), roll as consumption devices, and how well they actually perform the functions we're currently debating. They could be the greatest thing since sliced bread or it could be the OG Zoom on HC 3.0 all over again.