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And I disagree about defeating the purpose. It's an almost perfect form factor for me. The docking station takes up a tiny amount of extra space and adds a ton of functionality IF NEEDED, but I can undock and have a top of the line tablet. |
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No, but it loses half its battery life without the docking station attached. Other tablets offer expansion with addons, also. I guess I just don't get why you'd gimp half the cool shit on it if you don't take it with you.
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A good tablet or a bad tablet? That's really the question here.
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Your logic is the equivalent of saying my laptop is somehow inferior to other laptops because it'll take a docking station (which I've never used). Without the docking station, it's still as good as any other laptop. |
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I don't think you'll find many who would argue against the fact that the Xoom was priced way too high. However, for the record, the non-3G version of the Xoom is only $600.
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----------------- * Color me skeptical about this part.
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The Xoom costs $278 to build. Motorola's just trying to cash in on the early adopters. |
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After all, no one in this thread speculated about how the iPad would perform before it was released.
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It's the same deal here. The ASUS thing could be a gigantic flop. However, the company has always produced top-of-the-line devices overseas and is well-known for their components (motherboards, especially) here in the States. The stats say it should comparable to the Xoom, and it costs $200 less. You're right - we will never know how good it is for sure until we all buy one, run a dozen benchmark tests, and try to run over it with a tractor to see how durable it is. However, the evidence we have here suggests that it will be at worst a compelling new entrant into the tablet market and at best the first full-featured Android tablet below $500. |
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