[Nexus 10 General] tyhe314:
Here is what it comes down to with the nexus line vs. the note line:

Nexus was built for developers and people who enjoy putting their own spin on things. All of the nexus line was built with this intent. It uses vanilla stock android and it is quite "boring" when you first turn it on. However you can customize it however you like without being bogged down by a third party program that can't be ordinarily deleted. With a better screen, gpu and cpu, its intended for media and games but at the cost of battery life.

Note line: This was design primarily for business, students, and artists. They sacrificed the display so that they could install a wacom style screen and pen. It uses android with touch wiz third party (samsung) which adds certain convenience factors (such as the camera issue where you have to exit out of camera to see your photos). Touch wiz slows things down when you first open the box but when you delete some of the clutter off the screen, the speed improves dramatically. While it lacks the "oomph" in specs it gains in functionality. These functionalities include pressure sensitive s pen, multi task with touch wiz based apps, and more apps that natively support the resolution.

So the question you should ask yourself is how comfortable are you with tablets/smartphones/computers.

Do you know your way around and are you willing to learn if you do not understand? If yes more so nexus than note (S pen and pressure sensitive screen makes it more

What do you mainly intend to do with this tablet, do you value taking notes more precisely and do you enjoy doodling? If yes, note, if no infavor of nexus

Could you go without the stock functionality in favor of customization? If yes nexus, if no note

Are you going to unlock and root the device? If yes, nexus

I know everyone wants a cut and dry response but nowadays there really isn't a cut and dry response for computers in general. As a consumer we have been used to being babied by market ploys: this one is good, this one is better, and this one is best. We have gotten used to just accepting things because we were told. When the mac and the pc started competeing is when things stopped being so cut and dry. It is about the experience and whether you enjoyed one experience over the other. A lot of times you enjoy the experience the same, its just natural human greed to always doubt that you made the best choice and there is a better choice out there. Tablets and smart phones is the extension of this mac vs pc world. There is more to computing these days then just the sum of its parts.

I went through this same battle, nexus 10 or note 10. I love the functionality of the note and was off put by the performance. I didn't even try the nexus 10 before I decided to buy it. There were no stores around me that had a floor model. What I loved about the nexus is that it was the next gen and that it featured the bare goodness of android. I own an iphone so I wanted to experience the exact opposite. I felt good about buying a tablet that was slightly ahead of all the other tablets in terms of spec. I knew my way around a computer and although I do not code, I appreciated coding and always wanted to "jailbreak" a device. Before narrowing it down to the note versus nexus I went through asus tf300, tf700, and the various different 10 inch tablets. I wanted to like the tf700 badly but the inconsistent performance made me rethink my decision.

Now these are the reasons why I chose the Nexus 10. Doesnt mean that they should be the reason why you should.