[Steve Viegas]

I picked up a Gtab from Amazon and received it on Friday. I went to xda and promptly downloaded Gingerbread to it (upgrading from Android 2.2 to Android 2.3). My folks have an Apple iPad 1.

The Apple is better out of the box. The Apple has a much better screen for viewing. Apple is cool.

The GTab, with the upgrade that I did is a FAST machine. Faster than the iPad. It does what I want it to do and while the viewing angle is really poor, I do not need others to see what I am doing. It can be found everywhere for $300.

Refurbed products are not all they are cracked up to be in my opinion. I was in the camp of "This has been given a second glance" when I was younger, but after having worked at a Contract Manufacturer, and been in high tech most of my professional life, I no longer hold this opinion. Often problems that are experienced in hardware are cold solder problems. While these problems will present themselves in one component, once that weak link has been resolved, there are likely others that will surface. Just my opinion, and I did not stay in a Holiday Inn last night.