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Originally Posted by robertc88
Lurking for some time now and I have been enjoying browsing the forum and getting info on the Nook.
I have never "modded" any piece of electronics equipment I ever bought. That isn't to say I don't undersatnd why folks do but my thinking if a stock unit isn't what you exactly want in the first place and it also nullifies the warranty of a product, ......
One of the bigger strikes against regardless for me personally is no 3G for the NC which I'd rather have amongst some other things. Trust I've been having some conversations with myself and I probably can do with a stock unit but I still haven't pulled the trigger so I guess that speaks volumes.
CES is upon us with a wealth of info available on forums throughout the net. Maybe some folks are looking towards what may become available sooner rather than later or what the upcoming software upgrade will feature for the NC.
I will continue to browse the forum and here's my congrats to folks enjoying what they have purchased. I do personally feel at this point that the Nook is a great bang for buck product amongst what is available currently.
All the best,
Robertc88
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I had been, but last week I decided to give in an purchase a NC. I'm on #2 right as #1 had a defective USB port OOB.
Like you I also had been waiting for CES, but figured that it'd be like every other CES, a ton of products but with only a small handful that actually make it to market. I'm not even mildly impressed with the tablet offerings so far as most of them have 3/4G -> tied to a carrier -> grossly overpriced unless you pay extra and sign up for a data plan contract -> placebo affect of apparently lower device cost until you add up the plan cost total. (3/4G is just too overpriced in the US to interest me for data ATM, esp. since most places that I go contain a plethora of WiFi hotspots...)
The only other tablet that I briefly considered was the Elocity A7 (Tegra 2, basically another gTablet in 7" w/800x480 screen) when Amazon had it on sale, but it turned out to be not very hackable -> no sale for me.
NC: fairly hackable, source released(kernel), and a fair likelihood of extended support from B&N which is what drove my decision to buy.