You've got $1000 USD, which tablet would you buy or wait for and why?
 

Xoom
ASUS Eee Slate
Adam
Ipad
Scribe
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The Gingerbread man

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Archos 101

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HP Slate
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en..._oct10_product

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I bought an nTablet for a fair bit less than that (same reference design as the Tegatech Tega v2 and Viewsonic 10, among others) running win7, and it suits my needs nicely (Froyo on big tablets should be avoided like the plague, and 7" is too small for my needs). It's pretty much all singing, all dancing (usb, video out, micro sdhc port, wireless n, 3g modem, win7) at a comparatively moderate cost of £430.
Additionally, a major factor is that it was available to actually buy and really genuinely own several months ago, rather than a lot of semi vapourware "releases" or the current CES crop that wont be available for 2-6 months.

Of the CES releases though if I was looking now, in the android segment it'd be a toss-up between the Xoom and Asus Eee Pad Slider, both running honeycomb (which seems infinitely more suited to 10" screens and tablets in general than Froyo), and it'd be a pretty tough call - The Xoom seems to be the generally slightly more impressive device, but the Asus has a slide-out hardware keyboard, which would be a big bonus for me.

The Eee Slate doesn't really seem comparable to many other tablets, as the $1000 price tag puts it at the very top of the price range, almost certainly way more than either above Android tablet will go to, and with very high-end specs to match.
If I literally had $1000 to blow as I see fit on an upcoming tablet though, it'd be an Eee Slate.

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I would invest $1000 in the US stock market and wait till June or so for the tablet market to stabilize a bit.

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If it's a tablet that is available now:
Advent Vega / HP Slate 500 / (perhaps) iPad

If it is about a tablet in the short-future:
Notion Ink Adam / Exo-PC

If it is about a tablet in the approaching future:
Not sure, there is the Honeycomb-Tegra2's, iPad2, Playbook, HP's WebOS tablet (speculative), ultraportable Windows7 tablets.

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im happy with my n900. i carry my booklet 3g when i travel, but i just left to ces and then to LA and was gone a week, didnt have to open my laptop once!

i keep thinking about a tablet, but just seems to be that you would have to carry more "stuff"

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I'll tell you, the iPad is one sweet piece of machinery. It is very slick and well-done. It's perfect in every way. I use it mostly as a PDF reader and it's awesome. Much better than my brother's Archos 101.

Unless you want to think you own it. Or change the batteries. Or install VLC. Or multitask. Or fiddle with it. It's not yours, don't kid yourself.

If there was a PDF reader for the Archos that was as good as the iPad, then I'd tell all my buddies to go for that one. As it is, I'm telling them to wait.

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I was actively looking in December, but everything besides iPAD and GalaxyTab was still half baked IMHO or unavailable in US. Tablets will turn a corner by Q22011. $1000 will be a highend tablet. The only one I am specifically looking to which is more or less a known quantity is RIM Playbook but will look around to see what else is available at that time - MeeGo, HP WebOS Slate, Motorola Xoom maybe good but a lot is unknown still. But definitely wait.

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i'd blow the lot on a wild weekend of booze drugs and womanising, and still be happy with my n900 on monday morning. :)

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Posting quickly, before someone tags this thread with "glory hole" (thanks for making me look that up guys, now I'm scarred for life)

Xoom, hands down. I'd have spent them on a Maemo tablet with a 5'' screen a year ago, but nobody made one...

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go for Gold rather than the stock market you will then have a choice for US$1300 tablet / device.

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Motorola Atrix, baby.

That or pot and women.

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Ubuntu as a possible native OS with a Cortex A9? Now we're talkin'! And you'll almost be able to buy three for $1000. I hope they're just not teasin'.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/a...id-competitor/

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Would go for the Notion Ink Adam with the Qi display.

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My ipad is awesome, ive gotta say that, the os is super slick and the HD quality of video is great, but my fav toy at the moment is the galaxy tab because its just like a big phone, easily rooted and easy to install hundreds of cracked apps, but if i had to choose 1 toy to be shipwrecked with it would still be my n900

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My answer is that it would not be a tablet, but a slider or netvertible, i need included keyboard. The 2 sliders shown at CES2011 looked nice, but will be released in May

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a 7" meego slide tablet with 3G

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Fair enough, as I have been stoked with my n900 for over a year now. My 'problem' is I use it too much, I surf the web a lot on it at home.

This is really affecting my vision and eyes as the screen is so small...

I'f for nothing else, I will use a tablet for web browsing whilst sitting on the couch, my n900 can continue to do the rest.

I see the WeTab will allow for a Meego OS to evolve on it.

Now I have to convince myself why a tablet is any better that a slimline dual core laptop that I can get for the same price....?

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As it is, I've made over $1000 on just Ford stock; I bought it at $2 a share. My other stocks just added about 25% to their value last year.

I once had a friend who specialized in recommending Gold, and the friends of mine who were talked into it lost money. It's great if you have a sense that things are collapsing and you're right, but my sense is that things are slowly improving.

Edit: One thing's for sure, if I bought a tablet now, by June it would be worth a lot less.

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yes buying gold and holding it as a stock or a bond would not be very wise since gold and other precious metals (excluding some) are unrelatedly directly proportional to international money market.