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Originally Posted by jaydorn
Looks like they've extended the bizarre $299 across the board offer into Canada as well. Now till February 2nd.
To those of you who have jumped on the $199 models in the past few months, is it worth picking up a playbook? At $299 for 64gb it's hard to pass up on. Just not sure if I'll be left with that "should have gotten an iPad" feeling. |
Yeah the Playbook is very much
not an iPad. If you've got the budget, get an iPad. If you don't, don't bother comparing it to an iPad. Compare it against other tablets in your budget.
If you aren't comfortable installing a beta operating system on your tablet, I'd hold off. It's a good device and it's great value at $199/$299, but it just doesn't have the software that its competitors do.
Without the (beta) 2.0 OS on the Playbook, it's basically a web browser with a handful of games and apps. I found that after I installed the beta operating system, set up the device in developer mode, tracked down properly-packaged Android apps that will run on the playbook, sideloaded them via some java terminal jazz (or via a 3rd party app in Windows), it was actually a legit tablet.
Unfortunately if you don't make a hobby out of nerding out on gadgets like I do (or have your own in-house nerd that can do it for you), I can't really recommend it.
If you hold off for a bit, $300-$350 will likely get you a budget Ice Cream Sandwich tablet in the next couple of months (Acer comes to mind). It likely won't measure up hardware-wise to the Playbook, and it won't have 64GB if you want to carry your media around, but it's got the Android market.