Tablet mania, sparked by the relatively-new-but-almost-ubiquitous iPad, is all over town. Every manufacturer around the world, it seems, is releasing a tablet for the upcoming holiday season, and about half of them dual-boot Google Android. How do you make an also-ran into a stand-out?
Click to ZoomOne way--in the UK, at least--is to sell it ridiculously cheap in a "trade-up" program through which users send in their old laptops and get a deal on a new ViewSonic tablet. Two models are offered: The ViewPad 7 and the ViewPad 10, with a greater trade-in discount going to the latter, which is the more expensive of the two.
As noted, the value of the deal depends mostly on whether you get swept up in the tablet craze, which may or may not be a fleeting fad, or whether you consider tablets inferior to netbooks and notebooks. If you can touch-type on a "virtual keyboard" then have at it; if you like to get work done, on the other hand, do your research.
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