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Originally Posted by CyGuy
The micro SDHC card slot makes all the difference, no contest. I will have a new Nook soon.
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I am not planning to buy any of those, but I would wait and check performance.
What the SD card does is giving you extra space for additional content, but how much extra space a user will need and for what?
This is clearly marketed as a tablet, not a reading device. So for a tablet, I would expect solid and fast performance for video, browsing and screen response, with SD card slot like a nice bonus.
Having two iPad2, with no card slot at all and not using those as gaming devices, can certainly say I do not need an SD card slot, makes no difference. I thought I was going to miss it, but with so much cloud alternatives and most apps. managing info online, I don't see any reason for that.
Movies and music is probably what consume most space and would require an SD card, but on my personal case, I never download a movie to watch it later on my iPad2. I watch it via Netflix. And for music, I don't like tablets as mp3 player, too big, at least for me.
People would need tons or ebooks and several movies to use all Kindle fire space. Which again, with whispersync and Amazon's cloud service, I see no reason to be worried about it.
Sorry, maybe is just me, but I don't understand how people need more and more local storage for 5k+ books. We will need two or more life to read all that content; why carry on so many books an content on a single device? I just don't get it. Even when traveling, less than 1k books would be more than enough for the avid reader.