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Agree with pretty much everything you said there Naskies.
I have at home, a "Tablet PC"... which was one of those ones that the screen swiveled around 180 degrees then folded back to cover the keyboard. Full touch screen tablet at that point... which pre-dates the iPad whatever Apple may say about inventing the Tablet, all they did was removed the keyboard entirely, make it thinner and reduce the processing grunt to lengthen the battery life. Very clever of Apple don't get me wrong... great hardware, great system... I have two of them (iPad's) in my house that I and the kids use. But... that's refinement... not invention. I digress...
The problem with the older "Tablet PC's" is they were still big and chuncky like a laptop. Not even like the modern "Ultrabooks" that are nice and thin and light. And as you point out.... interface woes were very woeful indeed!
But, Windows 8 has gotten around most of the bad user interface that was as a result of trying to impose touch abilities on the older mouse based interface... and the newer Intel chips, while still not as good as "Tablet" chips, are a lot more power efficient than they used to be.
The attraction wont be the power efficiency... but the processing power for the business community.
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