| list price: | |
| savings: | $260 |
| Ebay: | $239.99 expiredMay 16 |
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| shipping: | Free shipping |
| EXPIRED: | May 16 |
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Question: What's the biggest difference between an Android tablet and an iOS based tablet?
Answer: The smug feeling you get for owning an Apple product.
I kid. I kid.
For Android platform lovers, the Motorola XOOM can be a decent tablet solution, especially whenever the darn thing is on sale. The most recent sale price drops the WiFi only model to the respectable pricing of $500, which ironically enough was avaialble from MacMall. You get a 32GB machine with a microSDHC expansion slot for the same price as the latest iOS tablet. Sporting the very fast Tegra 2, the Xoom can be a graphical powerhouse and chugs along just fine as you multitask between a HD clips and another redition of whatever popular tower defense games there is. For those of you still trying to save money on a Honeycomb 3.0+ tablet though, you probably should just wait to see how the Asus Transformer pans out.
These days you'll often find the Xoom dipping to the $350 price point, but once in awhile you'll get a great deal like the Xoom "Family Edition" (basically just 16GB vs 32GB for a very attractive price of mid-$250.
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Velocity Micro Cruz PS47 7-inch 2GB Android Tablet$199.99$99.99at NewEgg
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB 7200RPM Solid State Hybrid Drive ST95005620AS$149.99$79.99at NewEgg
Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Xbox 360)$19.99$4.99at Best Buy
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Available again, the XOOM family edition refurbished is $239.99 from Mwave through their eBay store. Well rounded Android 3.1 tablet, probably would have sold like crazy had it came out at this price range.
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Really great price for an Android 3.1 tablet from a higher-end manufacture. The "family edition" is basically just a 16GB model, with all the same ports and spec of the 32GB regular XOOM. Bigdeals has a refurbished unit for sale at only $239. Pretty sweet price for a Tegra 2 unit with handy outputs such as micro-HDMI, micro-USB etc.
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Yesterday, Dailysteals had a brand new Motorola Xoom w/ 32 GB for $350 only. Microcenter has $50 off on any Android, Blackberry, and Windows based tablets too if anyone is interested but its in-store only I believe.
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Tempting. But Motorola is coming out with a $379 MSRP Xoom 'Family Edition' with pretty much the same hardware. I'd rather get a new one than take a risk with this refurb.
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Yeah good move on waiting. Considering the kids-friendly family edition Xoom is basically the same thing (I personally never need 32GB on a tablet), you're better off getting a new model for slightly more.
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If the brand new Amazon Fire doesn't get you hot and bother because you want a more full tablet experience (whatever that means), today's Woot.com deal is a nice manufacturer refurbished Motorola Xoom with Android 3.1. Pretty sexy price for a 32GB.
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actual best price I've ever seen was Staples a few weeks back. They emailed out a coupon for $100 off any tablet (excluding only the then newly released HP). So in addition to the recent $100 drop to 499 could have been had for 399.
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