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Old 11-02-2011, 05:15 PM   #106
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Walmart is having a Super Saturday sale this Sat 05 Nov for select toys and electronics. One of the items in the ad is the Nook Color for $199 and it's listed as a price rollback from $249; not a sale item. Nook Color 2 is on the way.

In store sale starts at 11am. Online sale TBA.

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My hope is black Friday. A really great machine at a really great price.
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Walmart is having a Super Saturday sale this Sat 05 Nov for select toys and electronics. One of the items in the ad is the Nook Color for $199 and it's listed as a price rollback from $249; not a sale item. Nook Color 2 is on the way.

In store sale starts at 11am. Online sale TBA.

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So does that mean NC2 will cost more than $199? I think most people (myself anyway) have been assuming B&N has to meet that price point with NC2. Who will think NC1 @$199 was such a great deal come Nov 7 if that is the case?

But I look forward with interest to the Nov 7 announcement.
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So does that mean NC2 will cost more than $199? I think most people (myself anyway) have been assuming B&N has to meet that price point with NC2. Who will think NC1 @$199 was such a great deal come Nov 7 if that is the case?
Keep in mind, that many people (myself included) consider the Fire DOA because it doesn't have expandable storage. A card slot easily trumps a 1.0GHz dual-core CPU.

But since these tablet readers are aimed at average non-techies, the ecosystem will be the deciding factor and not the hardware. Amazon or B&N?

As it stands, I'm still very happy with my rooted NC1. Upgrading to NC2 will depend on features and price.
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That would be great.

You know, the tablet market is taking the wrong approach in my opinion. They're treating these devices like smartphones, instead of laptop replacements. As a result, these tablets become overpriced niche products. Laptops don't have that problem. Just look at the large variety within a given product line.

Why isn't an HP producing a half dozen or more tablets ranging in price from $199 to $599 and higher? Put stock Android on these devices and let Google handle the OS. That has tremendous value to customers and would save these companies a lot of time and money in developing and maintaining their own OS/UI.

HP is very successful with laptops. They could have that same success with tablets if they took the same approach.
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.... A card slot easily trumps a 1.0GHz dual-core CPU.
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But content is King.
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That would be great.

You know, the tablet market is taking the wrong approach in my opinion. They're treating these devices like smartphones, instead of laptop replacements. ....
Because of the OS/Environment and existing (MS) applications. To be a laptop replacement it must have a full office suite and be able to connect to corporate networks etc. etc. It's all but impossible to do word processing on just a tablet unless you have a separate keyboard and then you have two things to carry around and oh there's the mouse or touchpad and .....

The ultrabooks are going to fill this niche and be fully MS compatible with corporate networks and existing applications.
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But content is King.
That all depends on the source of your content. I use my Nook Color primarily for reading articles, web surfing, light gaming, and non-Amazon videos I already own. For me, the cloud is irrelevant.
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Because of the OS/Environment and existing (MS) applications. To be a laptop replacement it must have a full office suite and be able to connect to corporate networks etc. etc. It's all but impossible to do word processing on just a tablet unless you have a separate keyboard and then you have two things to carry around and oh there's the mouse or touchpad and .....
Asus Transformer

They're working on full OS's for tablets and soon enough, the hardware and software will mesh.

Keep in mind that most people don't need full office suites. Most people can get by quite happily on low end laptops. I once had a low end Compaq laptop and replaced it with a netbook. Just recently, I replaced my netbook with a TouchPad.

HP is out of the game for now, because they put all their eggs in the wrong basket. Their blunder is my fortune.
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They're working on full OS's for tablets and soon enough, the hardware and software will mesh.

Keep in mind that most people don't need full office suites. Most people can get by quite happily on low end laptops. I once had a low end Compaq laptop and replaced it with a netbook. Just recently, I replaced my netbook with a TouchPad.

HP is out of the game for now, because they put all their eggs in the wrong basket. Their blunder is my fortune.
Well, yeah, someday we'll have Star-Trek Transporters too.

BTW the Transformer just won: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15559778

But the issue is still hauling all that around and software compatibility if you expect to use it as a true laptop.

It's more this (the software compatibility) that sets the dividing line, just like with content availability/ecosystem between phones, tablets, ultrabooks, laptops, desktops, servers...
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But the issue is still hauling all that around and software compatibility if you expect to use it as a true laptop.
They're not in the majority, so they can still carry laptops until the technology catches up. Meanwhile, everyone else would do tablets.
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They're not in the majority, so they can still carry laptops until the technology catches up. Meanwhile, everyone else would do tablets.
I guess we disagree as to the function of tablets. They are not portable offices in the way laptops are.

Some users certainly do not use the functionality of a laptop and can move to a tablet immediately, many (if you are actually using it as a computer) cannot the software and infrastructure are just not there.
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Oh hairy, banana eating creature, I beg to differ with you.

I agree, it would have been nice to have a SD slot, but I'm happy with the dual-core. I have no patience and would HATE waiting for pages to load while surfing.

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Some leaks about the new Nook Color Tablet - $249 - dual core ... more media features; almost the same size - 7"

http://www.androidcentral.com/barnes...-pricing-specs
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Should make many folks here happy! If Netflix and Hulu Plus are on board that's fabulous.
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