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Previous rumors and leaked documents pegged Motorola's Xoom tablet launching for $800 at Best Buy on February 24th, and if you thought that was high, you better hope the recent listing was a mistake. The electronics chain over the weekend listed the Tegra 2 tablet on its website for a penny shy of $1,200, which would put the tablet in a pricing tier all its own. Does Best Buy (and Motorola) really intend to charge that much?
We have our doubts, and not just because Best Buy has since removed the listing. The Xoom tablet isn't without plenty of hype, not the least of which is because it will be the first slate built around Google's Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) platform. As you know by now, Google designed Honeycomb from the ground up to run on tablets, and as such, this is a pretty big deal.
The Xoom also packs a fair amount of hardware, including Nvidia's Tegra 2 processor and 1GB of memory. But $1,200? We find that hard to fathom with the iPad 2, PlayBook, and TouchPad all around the corner.
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themohawkadmin
February 14, 2011 at 2:19pm
Seriously? Heck, even a Macbook Air is cheaper than this and yet still infinitely more capable. What I want to know is, why pack so much power into a tablet? It's not like anyone needs to take over the world with them, how about a $300 device that has a more "basic" 800mhz or 1Gz cpu and 512mb ram?
titan8813
February 14, 2011 at 11:00pm
It's that illustrious streamind HD video bug that everyone seems to have. Why you need that in a tablet form factor is beyond me.
axiomatic
February 14, 2011 at 11:55am
Tell me again... what does the Xoom do that a $1200 regular laptop can't do? Whats that? You can actually do more with the regular laptop? Oh well that stinks for Motorola.
