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Originally Posted by kmack
The Nook Color is an amazing piece of hardware for the money. The screen is incredible.
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Oh I totally agree. For half the price of the iPad, you get the same screen technology (just 7 instead of 9.7"), the same CPU (just 800Mhz instead of 1GHz), and actually double the RAM, in what appears to be a nice package.
It's just yeah, I like eInk for reading, particularly when the majority of my day is spent in front of an LCD display already, and I don't like touch screens, so...yeah.
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and the eInk Nook uses a touchscreen LCD instead of hardware buttons.
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So far as I know the eInk Nook doesn't...oh, wait, I see what you're getting at, that mini-LCD touch screen in the place of a keyboard. Yeah, that sounds gimmicky and slower than having buttons, but I don't think that's a huge deal for me. I really meant like having hardware forward/back buttons, which the eInk Nook has. In fact they look nicer than the Kindle 2's equivalent, if anything! I don't use the keyboard much on the Kindle, so I don't think just using it to find a book to buy or whatever would be a huge deal for me.
As far as I know, my only complaint with the eInk Nook is it's using the last gen Viziplex (or whatever it's called) screen instead of the massively better Pearl version. If it had an updated screen, I'd just grab it and be done with it.