Really interesting stuff above. Learn something every day. Wish I could remember it.
The shard of metal has been returned. It appealed to my sense of design, and the video streaming onto the big telly was stunning. However, an HDMI socket, the micro version, was problematical, and I've just proved the fault to Bust Buy in their workshop. That, coupled with the ridiculously small SS drive space, made me part with it. $1,199 down to 650 was a heck of a discount, but I don't need hundreds of bucks worth of problems. Furthermore, even W8.1 with its new shell was still beating me with its odd ways, things loading time and again after I'd closed them and even killing it via Task Manager saw the Skype App reload itself and dominate the screen with relentless determination.
At the end of the day, it just wasn't a real working tool. More a yuppy status symbol. Pity, I need a bit of street cred.