[Nook Color General] cutterjohn:
OTOH I prefer NOT to BOHICA to Samsung for an flagrantly overpriced chunk of silicon. $600 for a $275 tablet?! Ok you obviously have spare cash, but for roughly the same total cost I got a nice vette(gTab) and a fiat(NC) w/a a better screen than the Tab, and for c. $100 more I got both instead of the WiFi Tab(c. $499). (BTW: I almost forgot to mention, but I will now: The Galaxy Tab is a flagrantly overpriced POS. Enjoying choppy flash playback?)

3G: No use for it, and it just served to increase to the Galaxy Tab to stupendous amounts for what it is, nearly obsolete, but at least they shipped it with 512MB RAM saving it from complete obsolescence on release(Archos).

Screen: I've never seen anyone lay down a tablet on a table to actually use one. Normally one holds them with one or both hands, and you directly view the screen negating any viewing angle effects. (Oddly enough I ran across a post today where someone liked it as a "security" "feature".) I never notice this excepting for the rare times that I have it on the desktop while flashing a new kernel or fw to try out. Versus something like the NC yeah, better viewing angles, but I haven't found any benefit to them in something like a tablet or reader yet, since it's normally used viewed dead on. The higher pixel density of the NC is nice, but not necessarily something that I couldn't have lived w/o had they chosen to go 800x480. NC was/is, primarily, a size choice in being that at times I'd rather have something a bit smaller even if it's nowhere near as capable.

Also it doesn't take "hours" of "****ing around"(unless you're an imbecile) to replace the fw or update it. It should take about 15m max including doing things that I know that most people are incapable of, i.e. actually READING the instructions. (It took you "hours" of "****ing around" to root your NC? as it's about the same level of difficulty as the "****ing around" with the gTab would've required.)

That said the 3389 update is reported MUCH more responsive, scoring ~1800 in Quadrant, while most of the custom fws get you to 2500+.

Now onto M$, sorry but M$ hasn't been "tight" w/nVidia for several years now. They're actually, "tight", with AMD/ATI ATM who are responsible for driving most of the DX 10, 10.1 & 11 specs/reqs. Also you seemed to have missed the implications that Google itself appears to be favoring Tegra 2 for tablets, and likely their phones as well for at least next year. I'm really doubting that the Samsung sub that makes the Tab & phones will bother buying Orion from the other Samsung sub, most likely because it's probably behind schedule which IMO is probably the most likely reason that they went ahead and ordered tegra 2 in quantity. (Also I really don't believe that any Windows phone is going to sell enough units to use even a small margin of the numbers reportedly ordered...)

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Sorry NC owners as well, but since Samsung Galaxy Tab owners are so insecure about their purchases of a grossly overpriced product that some of them felt the utmost need to invade the gTab forums, that I take great delight in tweaking them where appropriate, but never in their sacred club forum, unless I was struck by some malady that required me to actually waste $600+ on one.... hmmm ... might almost be worth it...

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