Microsoft admits Surface Pro 128GB storage limited to 83GB

[weirdwolf]

Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet, which is due to launch with a headline-grabbing 128GB of storage space, will only have 83GB of room for users' files.
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/tablet-pcs/1297429/microsoft-admits-surface-pro-128gb-storage-limited-to-83gb

This has been talked about before I believe, but I find it somewhat incredulous that "the operating system and pre-installed applications" eat up 45gigs of drive space. Which by the way is 5 gigs larger in size than the current 40 gig HDD I'm using (still about 2/3's empty).