What I found interesting, however, is a statement that Steve made during his presentation where he claimed that the new VMware View 4.5 Offline mode can take a VM in offline mode and synchronize the changes back to the Master image, including application installs and registry changes.
Users can track changesin Word, manipulate pivot tables in Excel and view PowerPoint slideshows in full presentation mode right from an iPad, and access them at anytime in their Dropbox, Box or Google Drive account.
If you are willing to make some changesin the software you use on the device based on if you are using the convertible in laptop or tablet-mode, many usage scenarios will work very well.