[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmazu:
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A couple of replies to you guys:

To Aludal:

Im aware of the current root methods used for the regular nook. At this point, being a doctor and not a hardcore hacker/power user, Im weary of bricking my device being as I have just purchased it. Call me a wimp, but at this point, I'll leave the hardcore initial work to the big boys who know what they are doing. When things have become a little more clear, I'd be happy to tinker with my device for the purpose of rooting/custom roms.

To Derek:

As to why I canceled my Archos 101 order. Having spent some amount of time doing research on the Archos over at archosfans forums, I was disappointed by some of the horror stories I had heard from some of the forum members. I was also unhappy regarding the sheer delay that Archos has made customers go through waiting for the device and the lack of feedback and clarity regarding future Android firmware updates. I know that 2.2 was in the pipeline for this month, but they have delayed again and again... not really positive you know?

The actual device seems okay. Screen is nice and wide, but people seemed to be having issues with the 4 android soft buttons and apps weren't formating properly to the screen. Overall people said the device felt plasticky and shody. Not the kind of reviews you want to be hearing when you are going to put down $300 on a new device.

The NC is a solid device. Its heavy enough and the unit feels well made and put together. I can rely on B&N to push out firmware updates and with the sheer amount of interest this device is getting from the XDA and development community - it looks like the NC will be the better supported of the two devices. I was initially planning to get the Notion Ink Adam, but I bit the bullet and went for the nook color after playing with the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Like I said and Axe2 commented also, the screen on the NC is gorgeous. It is really vivid and text/images look amazing. Yes you lose a few inches of screen real estate, but the end product is much better. Its no iPad, but I wasn't expecting it to be. I do feel that the display on the NC is much clearer than on my iPhone 4 retina display but maybe thats just because there is 2x the screen space to read on.

Web browsing is quite nice on the NC. It lacks flash support, but web pages load plenty fast on my 10mbps cable connection over wifi. Scrolling is smooth and there is no lag when it comes to browsing. You can view full web sites in portrait or landscape. The stock browser does mess up on certain sites like Twitter. But I can live with that, as I use my iPhone for twitter and the like. As I said earlier, I use the NC for reading PDF books and word documents which I have typed my med school notes on. Ill include some images taken with my iphone so you all can see how PDFs and word documents look... sorry for the lack of clarity...

To AXE2:

Well said my friend. Spot on with my views. The G-tablet while more hackable - seems like it isnt as user friendly or well made. Its a great device, but again it will depend upon the hacking community to keep it afloat. As far as display is concerned - I dont think any device will match the 1024x600 IPS display's clarity even with the smaller screen size. Lets hope that we get cyanogen or some other custom full android roms on this badboy and get a real bargain of a device at $250 vs $375 for the G-tablet.

Below are some images I took really quickly. Any questions you guys have feel free to ask away.