I want to use what I need, not what software vendors care to port to some gimp-pad.
Incorporating what you want and/or need would ruin this potential new iPad product. You don't seem to understand that Microsoft has doing what you are advocating for the last 15 years. They have been putting touchscreens onto undersized notebook computers and trying to sell the resulting devices as tablets since 1999. And they are still failing miserably because of it.
Most people want good tablets, not bad notebook computers. Steve Jobs got that. That's why the iPad was a rousing success after one Windows tablet failure after another.
Also, I need (as in have to, whether I want or not) to be able to give live demos of our enterprise apps, which will never, ever be ported to any gimped tablet OS.
The OS is not crippled and your use of the terms "gimp" and "gimped" is offensive. iOS is optimized for a touchscreen device and a low-power ARM processor (for battery life).
They probably won't ever be ported to anything outside Windows, but an OSX pad would allow me to run Windows in VMWare for demos.
Then get a Microsoft Surface Pro 3. It's designed for people like you -- people who want to run unmodified Windows apps on a portable device with a ~12" screen using a plug-in USB keyboard and mouse.
Also, there's no way around the fact that finger-driven UI's are a horrible waste of screen estate. All touch targets need to be immense and the result is that you can't fit f*&k-all on the screen.
Talk to someone who understands how to design touch screen GUIs and you'll learn something. That's why touchscreen apps and OSs have menus and controls that you swipe up, down, left, or right to bring onto the screen. That's why good tablet apps normally don't have rows of always-present icons or "ribbons."
Screen real estate used to make a touchscreen device work well when used as a touchscreen device is not wasted. I realize that you'd probably much rather have an iPhone with a plug-in keyboard and mouse for dialing, texting, apps, etc., but none of the rest of us want that. We want controls big enough to use with our fingers -- just like we want them on our iPads.
It might be acceptable for couch-slouching, but I want none of that for productivity use if I could just as easily plug in a mouse and a proper keyboard.
Any developer will tell you that productivity sucks on a single 12" display. I've got a pair of 23" Samsung monitors in front of me and it drives me crazy to have so little real estate when I'm developing software.
Quit trying to make a good tablet into a lousy notebook computer. You've made it clear that you hate finger-operated touchscreens, you want to use a USB keyboard and mouse, and want to run Windows applications. So buy a Surface Pro 3 and be done with it.