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Originally Posted by HarryT
The iPad 2 will render pages rather faster, and it's a little lighter, but for PDFs there's really very little in it. The iPad with the "Goodreader" app is absolutely superb for reading and annotating PDFs.
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True but with the minimal price difference ($299 for refurb iPad Wi-Fi 16GB vs $349 for refurb iPad 2 Wi-Fi 16GB), it makes more sense to go with the iPad 2. Even if you don't take the faster CPU into consideration, the iPad 2 has twice the memory as the original iPad (512MB vs 256MB). I reckon the extra memory would help when dealing with large PDF's. I only have an iPad 2 but I can tell you that I get a lot more app crashes on my iPod Touch (256MB RAM) than on my iPhone 4 (512MB RAM) due to memory running out. Both the iPod and iPhone have the same CPU.
Not sure how much you can get the Xoom for but for right now, iOS is just a more mature platform for tablets.