What makes a technology revolutionary is not its initial price, but how quickly it integrates into peoples' everyday lives until we can't remember how we lived without it. It offers so much that the benefits outweigh the cost, and then eventually cost comes down as consumer demand evens out development cost.

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I'm not saying it won't revolutionize in the long run, but it has to have some sort of evolution that would allow it to galvanize and thereby revolutionize the market it's attempting to enter. If it starts off at a high price point, it probably won't make much of a splash unless they market the hell out of it and drop the price considerably soon after the "you can't have it" demand reaches it's peak.

Novel technologies often fail when the demand isn't high enough to cover the production costs. If they price this very high, they're going to be looking at an initial niche market, which can be smart, depending on how they handle it over time.

I'm too high right now to finish this haha.

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As far as Apple's marketing prowess... I don't believe they ahve any. They simply fill a niche for trendy, elitist people. Also, my best friend uses a Mac... I aske dhim why, since it crashes often and the software choices are sometimes, well, nonexistant... his reply is that, "he's been using them since school, so, whatever."

A man who sells filtered water is shiny bottles and happens to be in business on a hot day is not a marketing genius. He got lucky and had a product which is not entirely garbage. His water isn't intrinsically better, and it's not exclusive. He didn't create the hot day, he just got lucky to be there. That's kinda how I see Apple. They've lucked out a couple times, and as a result they aren't at the very bottom of the heap, perhaps somewhere in the bottom third, catering to a narrow demographic.

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I would hope it has sufficient power to handle smooth drawing at reasonable speed, high enough DPI to allow me to draw at a resolution of at least 1280x1024, and enough HDD space to let me store tons of comps.

Of course, we artists never expect portable tablet hardware to be made with us in mind, with the exception of the Cintiq. Most tablet PCs have horrible DPI and are absolutely worthless for drawing all but the most rudimentary sketches. In essence, they become little more than novelties, or oversized PDAs.

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