The Xoom is much snappier than my netbook, and powers up instantly. Even from a cold boot, it takes a fraction of the time to power up than a Wintel netbook. For what I use it for (email, web browsing, news reader) it has better performance and readability than a netbook, and is lighter and more compact. When Adobe flash 10.2 and the Honeycomb version of QuickOffice is released, it will gain web video functionality equal to the netbook, and will be able to do light document editing chores on the go or in a comfy chair.
The major downside right now (aside from still waiting for basic apps to be polished up and released for Honeycomb/tablet format) is that web sites haven't caught up to the fact that Android 3.0 tablet devices should not be shunted to mobile versions of their offerings. That's not so much a fault of the tablet, it's the web site maintainers. For some web sites you cannot even force opening of the full site, but are always redirected to the mobile site.
Cheers.
The major downside right now (aside from still waiting for basic apps to be polished up and released for Honeycomb/tablet format) is that web sites haven't caught up to the fact that Android 3.0 tablet devices should not be shunted to mobile versions of their offerings. That's not so much a fault of the tablet, it's the web site maintainers. For some web sites you cannot even force opening of the full site, but are always redirected to the mobile site.
Cheers.
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