I am an Android guy myself. Several Family Members have iPads and iPad 2's. They love them. Personally I had an iPad for about 4 months and sold it to get the Asus TF101 when it came out. I've never looked back. I like the fact that I can simply pop in a memory card full of movies, pictures etc without having to deal with iTunes and syncing etc.. Yeah I know there is Drop Box and now iCloud, but for me there is just something about being able to swap some memory in and out as desired. I keep a card with movies on it to pop in when traveling - - I can easily throw .mkv files from my Media Center PC that I've recorded onto and it will play anything I can throw at it...OK - off my soap box.
If you like Apple stuff, which you obviously do since you have an iPhone. I think you will like an iPad. If you are open to other products, check out some of the Android Tablets.
I use my Tablet 85% of the time at home and only jump on the PC or Laptop for specific tasks.
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Originally Posted by out2kayak
Having a ITouch for a while, I am very un-impressed with CPU, software defects (the apps crash -- even ones on the device from the factory), security, and web connectivity.
From what I have see and heard about the IPad, it suffers from similar issues.
My wife asked for a tablet this Christmas and we looked at the IPad, Kindle Fire, and Nook.
The Nook was un-impressive as it only allows you 1GB space for non-B&N content.
The Fire is interesting, but we are in Europe often and it seems the Fire is zone locked. Also, see: http://video.msn.com?vid=d1a91e3b-8d...ermalink:uuids.
What I have been watching out for is the new nvidia tegra 3 CPU in a tablet (see: http://www.tegra3.org). It's the first quad core CPU for a tablet.
Just today Amazon started selling the ASUS TF201 ( http://www.amazon.com/TF201-B1-GR-Tr...524162&sr=1-4). It's about the same price you are looking at, can be updated to Ice Cream Sandwich (the latest Android OS), has very good graphics and gives us space for videos, music, etc.
Here is the difference between dual cores and quad cores:
http://gigaom.com/mobile/nvidia-tegr...re-demo-video/
Win8 on tablet:
http://www.netbooknews.com/27326/nvi...ing-windows-8/
So, you can guess what the wife is going to get for Christmas.
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