Windows 8 Tablets: Prices hopelessly overdrawn?

Bob O'Donnell, an analyst with IDC, found a few harsh words about the new, heavily hyped tablet with Windows 8: The new devices are hopelessly overpriced, he said.
As Cnet wrote, are the new, hybrid devices, such as the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 and similar, created with a price tag over $ 1,000. Will the Apple iPad will be dangerous, so be turned sharply to push up prices - should they really - how often quoted. Also, the new Acer hybrids that will cost around $ 500, and placed with their netbook-like processor at the entry side, he considers too expensive as a keyboard again would cost about $ 250 and an introduction price of the first iPad have been lower than the Acer is without keys.
Started with a misstep? All this is consistent with the traditional pricing model for mobile PCs - it had nothing to do with the new form factor of tablets and convertibles (notebooks with two functions, as notebook and tablet). The problem is that while the past history of all those tablets, which were more expensive than the iPad totally ignored leave - which is namely "not nice" was.
O'Donnell looks particularly critical that Lenovo did with its price probably set a mark for all other providers and it is difficult now, with a (possibly business friendly) device to stay on Windows-8-base underneath. Even Microsoft's own tablet he sees at this point no career as a sales hit with $ 599 for the simpler and 999 is clear of the equipped with a more powerful Intel processor version, that the industry was united and would rather not want to be cheaper than Apple . The key question in terms of Surface prices was for him now only: with or without a keyboard?