<p>I’m really tempted to buy a blackberry playbook but my friends were saying wait for another year to get a tablet so I can buy a tablet right before going to college.So what do you think I should do?Do you think it is wiser to buy a tablet next year before college?</p>
<p>No</p>
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<p>Being able to play Angry Birds during Calculus - priceless :-)</p>
<p>If you’re going to get a tablet, get the real thing. I’m not an Apple evangelist by any means (my DD received a Windows Phone 7 for graduation from HS last month 
- likely the first WP7 phone in a graduating class of 800) but knowing what I know the Playbook et. al. are not in the same league as the iPad. </p>
<p>A year from now will get you a much better display in the iPad 3 or more powerful options from some of the better players in the game (Asus). If you don’t need the tablet right now in a year there will be a lot of advancements in terms of capabilities, so I’d wait.</p>
<p>Right now, the iPad is head and shoulders above the competition. In a year, more Android-based, RIM and HP WebOS tablets will be out and will have had a chance to mature into version 2 products. The tablet market will be more competitive and there will be far more choices in a year. Unless you want an iPad, you should wait.</p>
<p>Surprise - a new study says that students that use tablets or laptops into class do worse in college. There are too many distractions for them.</p>
<p>I do not need to use it in the class, I just need one for ebooks, Internet, apps&games in my free time. But for class I just need my pen & paper.</p>
<p>I like big pages and big text and not having to deal with zooming and scrolling. I think you’ll find that even though textbooks are heavier, they are much easier to deal with.</p>
<p>If you need it now, buy it. If not, don’t buy it.</p>
<p>There’s always something newer and better looming in tech, and you’ll never catch up to it. It’s like a carrot on a stick. You’ll lose out if you buy anything before you need it, but you’ll never end up buying anything if you wait for the next greatest thing to come out.</p>
<p>not 20 years ago, not 10 years ago, not now, and not any time soon. “just because everyone else has one” is not anywhere close to a legitimate reason. tablets are only useful in one way - as graphical tablets.</p>
<p>Not so much…</p>
<p>…personally I want to wait until the iPad 3 comes out, but party by the fact people are hyping something that’s coming out next year. I just hate carrying my heavy laptop to class.</p>
<p>If you’re going to buy a tablet, don’t buy the Blackberry Playbook… plz
The reviews say that it’s not worth buying. The Playbook isn’t BAD BAD. It just doesn’t match the iPad 2/Xoom/Galaxy Tab(s) at that high price point. You get a piece of crap at that price. Software, apps, and fluidity are lacking. (That’s what all the reviews say)</p>
<p>Obviously the iPad 2 is the golden standard.
The Xoom and Galaxy Tab are still pretty good. I tried the Xoom out at BB and the interface is hard to learn initially. But it can multitask like a beast. So get those if you crave power.</p>
<p>What would the iPad 3 have? Obviously iOS 5. Quad core CPU? Tegra graphics? Any thinner and it can function as a blade…</p>
<p>wait for nvidia’s tegra 3 processor, and then buy a tablet
It should be out by the end of this year and by then, android ice cream sandwich will be out as well</p>