Either Allow User Needs To Drive Product Development, or...

...create one of these.

Presumably MIU got so fed up with the millions of customer requests for an ugly brick which can boot into XP, CE or Linux that they went ahead and built one.

Or, just possibly, they let the engineers in the R&D department loose and said "build us something with the spec sheet of your dreams" without considering how few people dream like geeky hardware engineers...