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I'm pretty sure that this is the table from the end of the story. http://www.frys.com/product/6982177?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT...

I wonder how this compares to the Nexus 7 in terms of usability/response/lag/etc.

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Android 2.3, never going to get updated, crappy resolution, slow single core processor...

Honestly, it's going to suck compared to a Nexus 7. Remember, Android 2.3 IS NOT a tablet operating system, the first of which was 3.0, so it's basically a 7" non-cellular Android phone.

And windows 95 was a terrible desktop operating system. But it still sold. The people who are going to buy this won't care.

It wasn't crappy at the time. For those of us used to Windows 3.x it was amazing.

This is more akin to selling Windows 95 on machines after Windows 98SE was already out. At that point, yes, 95 was considered terrible.

That tablet is not ICS.

Right, I was referring to the small post script at the end of the article.

"I thought discovering the A-Pad was pretty exciting. So I was dismayed to find that the week after I got back from China, a device that looks a lot like my A-Pad was on sale at Fry’s Electronics for $79. No brand listed. The process has already begun."

I didn't mean to say that the link was for the main tablet in the article. Guess that wasn't clear.

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