$799 for the Xoom? Ouch!

[Chris Kerrigan]

$600 only for WiFi is competitive enough for me. I want it!

 

[Bujin#IM]

I agree with you...a $400 price is right for a high end netbook...these things run circles around them. Eventually the market will get saturated but right now I think it's about right. I want this puppy as it seems to be the best for HDMI out.

I guess I'm curious as to how these tablets can "run circles around" netbooks. I'm currently using a $300 netbook and it does pretty much everything my laptop can do, and while I love my NC, it doesn't really have the functionality of my netbook.

I have a hard time justifying a tablet for the same price as 2 netbooks.

 

[mr.seth.price]

I guess I'm curious as to how these tablets can "run circles around" netbooks. I'm currently using a $300 netbook and it does pretty much everything my laptop can do, and while I love my NC, it doesn't really have the functionality of my netbook.

I have a hard time justifying a tablet for the same price as 2 netbooks.

My netbook is horrible for streaming media. It's processing with an Atom core and it's only 7 months old. Youtube is jittery and it's basically my wifi only on the go device.

Dropbox is slow and i hate the trackpad for input with a mouse and have to usually carry another one around. Editing video or music on the things is a pain...installing apps is a pain since the webstores for the most part is ridiculous and it doesn't have a dvd slot on the netbook. Screen is also only 9 inches...hinge can break if i put it back to far. I could go on and on but I think you get the point.

This can do more than the average netbook...though your needs may vary from mine. Also I can't use apps like tango on my netbook when I can on a tablet.

It won't replace my laptop at home but it will put my netbook on the give to my son gift or the (oh crap i dropped it...replace pile).

 

[Live2ride883]

This is the same ad with typo's thats been on every other android site out there. Nothing "official" from Motorola, or Verizon Wireless yet.

 

[cparker5]

This is the same ad with typo's thats been on every other android site out there. Nothing "official" from Motorola, or Verizon Wireless yet.

http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-xoom-priced-799-wifi-only-version-around-600

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

This is the same ad with typo's thats been on every other android site out there. Nothing "official" from Motorola, or Verizon Wireless yet.

Ya might wanna check our homepage

 

[lotusmaster]

There's no way I'm paying that, unless the 4g upgrade is free & it includes the case & dock! Other than that other Honeycomb tablets are in the works and I'm sure they'll undercut Xoom when they do.

 

[ckeegan003]

There's no way I'm paying that, unless the 4g upgrade is free & it includes the case & dock! Other than that other Honeycomb tablets are in the works and I'm sure they'll undercut Xoom when they do.

Then don't, but the 4G upgrade is free.

Good luck with those other Honeycomb tablets, since pretty much all announced at Mobile World Congress (Samsung, HTC, LG) will be right about the same price as the XOOM.

 

[Live2ride883]

The price confirmation was put up after my post. I was talking about the ad. With the typo's etc thats been running around the net for awhile now.

 

[tntdroid]

So does that pre sale at best buy still start tomorrow?

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[TFT]

I stopped at Best Buy on my way home. The mobile department told me I could place a deposit on a Xoom tomorrow morning when they open.

 

[sookster54]

My netbook is horrible for streaming media. It's processing with an Atom core and it's only 7 months old. Youtube is jittery and it's basically my wifi only on the go device.

Intel did a pretty crappy job with the mobile processors, my mother's Dell Atom netbook falls behind my MSI AMD Neo dual core netbook both at the same 1.6GHz speed, hell my netbook can play games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. And I paid $350 for my netbook and it keeps up with my $700 Dell Inspirion laptop!

Anyways, tablets can be useful for alot of things, netbook/laptops are better for regular web surfing and doing some work on it via Office apps, presentations or emails.