I think your comparison to 10 inch netbooks is spot on-granted, the Surface is 10.6, but considering I always felt uber crampted on a 10.1 inch netbook, I don't see the utility in having a tablet version of one. As a tablet, I think Surface has a lot going for it (kickstand, snapping apps side by side, flash, file system access), but there's no way I'd use a device that small as a primary computing device for productivity (programming or Office type stuff). Otherwise, its just an expensive VPN client.