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tipstir · 05-20-2011, 03:06 AM

What's not selling are the expensive ones! COBY KYROS MID7015/7015A those are selling. Anything under $150 will fly off online and locally. Best Buy Tablet Center might be a dud because right now most can only buy the lower priced tablets some might chance it and buy the $399 plus ones. Gas is high, food is high and making a tablet very high is not going to cut it today!

They can make the prices lower, but they won't do it because profit margins goals have to be met. ACER W500 Windows Tablet version that's pretty high at HSN for $599 to $649 even with the payments it still high. Most will buy that because they want to go Windows 7 instead of Android OS 3.x.

I would like to get Windows tablet but I am waiting on Windows 8 Metro Tablet OS to hit 2012 or 2014 at this rate it not going to be cheap either. How you call it!

05-20-2011, 03:06 AM	#108
tipstir Coby MID7015 Tablet Guru Posts: 164 Karma: 980 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: South Florida USA Device: 7015A, CM738A, 7015, M150, A7, A32, Next3, PDN 7"/9", GT78, ePad	What's not selling are the expensive ones! COBY KYROS MID7015/7015A those are selling. Anything under $150 will fly off online and locally. Best Buy Tablet Center might be a dud because right now most can only buy the lower priced tablets some might chance it and buy the $399 plus ones. Gas is high, food is high and making a tablet very high is not going to cut it today! They can make the prices lower, but they won't do it because profit margins goals have to be met. ACER W500 Windows Tablet version that's pretty high at HSN for $599 to $649 even with the payments it still high. Most will buy that because they want to go Windows 7 instead of Android OS 3.x. I would like to get Windows tablet but I am waiting on Windows 8 Metro Tablet OS to hit 2012 or 2014 at this rate it not going to be cheap either. How you call it!