Mr. Gray, please reconsider!
Patrick,
"Obviously" the "faults" you have mentioned are merely opportunities for other vendors to "supplement" the Surface with "pirepherals.
first a Bigger battery....
with everyone going green, the old heavy and energy dense car batteries will be in abundance. using the Microsoft (side pack) you could carry a car battery and use that to supplement the poor battery life.
The battery could also have a "mini server rack" on it to carry a powered file / application server to supplement the "svelt" form factor of the surface.
The whole package, Car battery (wrapped in colorful microsoft fabric could be called the "power user pack, and will then provide the computing experience that you are looking for. Frankly this fits the marketing model of the XBOX, which required after market fans to keep the power wire ont he motehrboard from overheating and fusing to the motherboard. So Die Hard Zealots ould welcome the "extra 10 to 40 lbs of batteries.
As far as "unusable" that is semantics.
HAH!!
