If your power goes out, what then?
That's actually a perfect example. When the power goes out, the rooftop generators kick on and everything continues.
When your business relies entirely on services provided by other parties, you're just asking to be marginalized. If something in some remote datacenter causes your virtual host to completely disappear, you don't have a guy to jog down the hall and see what's up. All you have is a phone call to customer support.
The Vita at least has Sony backing.
This is exactly why I would prefer this device over a Vita.
However, I too have been looking for a solution now that Apple is moving in the iOS-y direction for OS X, in terms of a system that lets me keep the awesome BSD power of Mac OS without being confined to Apple's walled garden of App Store restrictions etc.
Sounds like what you're looking for is... BSD.
And it is a tribute to the success of the DOE's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program (ATVM), a program which was chartered by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush, to accelerate the market for a broad range of promising automotive efficiency technologies
Can you read, or were you being sarcastic?
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League