I bought my Nook Tablet for the RAM...

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slgooding

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So...one of the big reasons that I bought my Nook Tablet was for the RAM. Yeah, the display is better than the Kindle fire, but when it comes down to it, one of the major differences is the RAM and the SD slot. When it comes to the potential for development I figured that those 2 variables would make a big difference...

How many of you did the same thing? Do you feel like it was the right decision? I follow the development thread daily, and it seems promising... Then I look at the kindle fire threads and feel sad.

Sigh... :)

I'm no longer sad. Thanks everyone! :) We'll have ICS running soon. Can't wait.
 
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old_fart

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same here. we have the same sediments.
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i have a hong kong tablet ( haipad ) also with half the memory and so it does not run as zippy as the nook... my next tablet will be an iPad 3 ( just joking... )
 

Demetris

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Patience is a virtue.
Remember Kindle is sold worldwide, Nook Tablet is USA only.
Better screen sd slot and double memory is a kill feature, i bet a lot of kindle owners envy us :)
I live in Cyprus (Europe) and i paid $250+$48 delivery + $45 VAT and taxes and am still very happy with my buy and i dont even have warranty and am the only one to have this tablet in my Country.
 
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lavero.burgos

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I paid 250 + 16 us tax + free shipping to my DinersBox (credit card service) in Miami +10- shipping to Equator :D.

~ Veronica

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PJLLB

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I considered the extra memory and microSD slot when I decided to buy the NT. Since I've owned it and played with a friend's Kindle Fire, I appreciate these two things even more, plus the better screen. The Fire doesn't zeem as "zippy" as the NT, and I like the NT reader better. The ability to boot of the microSD is something I now consider a "must have" feature, so I'm really happy I didn't buy a Kindle Fire. I came close, but actually played with both at a store the day they came out -- and promptly bought the NT. We now have two of them.
 

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I tried out both the kindle fire and the nook tablet for a little while from people who had them at my school. In the end the determining factor was the UI. They're both god awful but I like the NT's desktop approach as opposed to the carousel view. The specs were nice too but I had no idea I was going to be rooting and flashing roms on it. I think I made the right choice and I don't regret a thing.

Sent from my CM9 Alpha 0.02 Nook Tablet
 

lfeuln

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Being able to get the Google Play Store without any internal modification (thanks to the SD card) is huge and reason enough to have the Nook Tablet. And no hardware volume switch would drive me nuts.

That said, my Dad recently got a Kindle Fire and it ran pretty smoothly with much better non vibrating speakers (probably the thing I envy most!) I didn't detect any major difference in performance when I compared Flash video streaming so perhaps the Kindle RAM is sufficient at least for now.


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cj2thhed

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Yep... me too

I bought this for my wife. (I buy things I like and give them to people, who knows what they want as a gift). She liked it out of the box, but my primary purpose was to root and explore. It is definitely one of the best pieces of hardware available within that price range. I still haven't rooted, but the fact that I'm in this forum means it wont be long now. Can't wait to break out of the BN cage.
 

brendave

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I love my NT. Played with the ipad 2 and just felt it was too bulky and hard to read from. The kindle fire had a good feel and I didn't notice a lag in speed but what at really sold me on the NT was the sd card slot. And I'm happy with the mods I've made. All in all, a great buy!
 

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I sampled a series of android tablets before ending up with the NT. Through careful purchasing (and returns) I tried out an unmodified NT first, a Lenovo K1, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and a Lenovo A1. I bought the final NT and rooted and installed CM7.

I find I like the 7in. form factor much more that the 10in. I miss the cameras, gps and bluetooth. I pretty much got the NT as an interim tablet, to use and play around with until the new stuff comes out later this year. I'm actually looking forward to the Win8 tablets.
 

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So...one of the big reasons that I bought my Nook Tablet was for the RAM. Yeah, the display is better than the Kindle fire, but when it comes down to it, one of the major differences is the RAM and the SD slot. When it comes to the potential for development I figured that those 2 variables would make a big difference...

How many of you did the same thing? Do you feel like it was the right decision? I follow the development thread daily, and it seems promising... Then I look at the kindle fire threads and feel sad.

Sigh...

I wish that someone would port AOKP to the nook tablet because its much better than cm9 in its current state of development.
 

ma.da.ladla

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great joke your dual core device will become quad core

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Setup:Details are Below
Cm7 Barebones+Raven's Kernel
Minimum:300 Higher 1200mhz
Go launcher Ex With MIUI Theme
Games:MC3,Fifa 2012,Real Racing 2,Stick Cricket,Gangster Rio....
Apps:Mx Video Player,JetVid,Titanium Backup,Opera Mobile,Dolphin HD,Adobe Reader
 

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He's right. Rebellious isnt going to magically make two more cores grow out of the die. Our devices will still be dual core, but they'll have HW video acceleration.
 
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SilentStormer

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He's right. Rebellious isnt going to magically make two more cores grow out of the die. Our devices will still be dual core, but they'll have HW video acceleration.

Nope, we have 2 'ducati' cores that are specifically used for graphics and video decoding. Those haven't been utilized (I think) in any ROMs up till now. Ducati cores require their own special 'governor/kernel elements. Rebellos' job is to write these kernel elements and we are sending him a Nook as we speak. So we will have our normal dual core 1ghz processor with the addition of our 2 ducati cores. 2+2=4 4=quad. We've got a quad core tablet on our hands gentlemen.

Sent from my CM9 Alpha 0.02 Nook Tablet
 

SilentStormer

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great joke your dual core device will become quad core

Sent From my Kindle Fire
Setup:Details are Below
Cm7 Barebones+Raven's Kernel
Minimum:300 Higher 1200mhz
Go launcher Ex With MIUI Theme
Games:MC3,Fifa 2012,Real Racing 2,Stick Cricket,Gangster Rio....
Apps:Mx Video Player,JetVid,Titanium Backup,Opera Mobile,Dolphin HD,Adobe Reader

See the post above this, little cheeky fire person. When were running our quadcores with our gig of ram you won't be so cocky.

Sent from my CM9 Alpha 0.02 Nook Tablet
 

SilentStormer

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i bought my kindle fire for the look and feel and after all we have a great android section with lots of ics and cm9 roms and aokp roms plus kernel 3.0 is near perfection.we have hwa,audio,and usb otg working and we can connect flash drive,keyboard,mouse and other usb gadgets with our beloved kindle....thnx God i did'nt buy nook

Sent From my Kindle Fire
Setup:Details are Below
Cm7 Barebones+Raven's Kernel
Minimum:300 Higher 1200mhz
Go launcher Ex With MIUI Theme
Games:MC3,Fifa 2012,Real Racing 2,Stick Cricket,Gangster Rio....
Apps:Mx Video Player,JetVid,Titanium Backup,Opera Mobile,Dolphin HD,Adobe Reader

Man and through all of this you're stuck with only 8gb of space? I'm running 48gb of space on my nook, and its nice, what do you do when you're off stock kindle and don't have access to amazons cloud services? That must suck.

Sent from my CM9 Alpha 0.02 Nook Tablet
 

Demetris

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great joke your dual core device will become quad core

Sent From my Kindle Fire
Setup:Details are Below
Cm7 Barebones+Raven's Kernel
Minimum:300 Higher 1200mhz
Go launcher Ex With MIUI Theme
Games:MC3,Fifa 2012,Real Racing 2,Stick Cricket,Gangster Rio....
Apps:Mx Video Player,JetVid,Titanium Backup,Opera Mobile,Dolphin HD,Adobe Reader

No flaming wars here.
We are a peaceful community.
Please respect us like we do.
Ah! and happy reading:
http://omappedia.org/wiki/Ducati_For_Dummies

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-m/cortex-m3.php

Key features of the Cortex-M3 core are:

ARMv7-M architecture
Instruction Sets
Thumb (entire)
Thumb-2 (entire)
1-cycle 32-bit hardware multiply, 2-12 cycle 32-bit hardware divide, saturated math support
3-stage pipeline with branch speculation
1 to 240 physical interrupts, plus NMI
12 cycle interrupt latency
Integrated sleep modes
8 region memory protection unit (MPU) (silicon option)
1.25 DMIPS/MHz
90 nm implementation
32 µW/MHz
0.12 mm2
So, please search before posting nonsense.
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    I think you should give the ICS alpha a try. I made the leap a couple months ago and haven't looked back. The usability improvements are fantastic. Even without hardware acceleration it runs solid. Just make a backup and you can jump back to cm7 if you want.

    I even tried the nightly build with acceleration. It is definitely smoother, but ill wait until some of the battery life issues are worked out.

    I agree, the newest release seems much more stable than .3, I haven't had a single fc or rr yet. Not to mention that ics gives you a full-out tablet experience. Back up your current rom and give it a shot, you will not be dissapointed.

    Sent from my CM9 Nook Tablet using Tapatalk
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    I think you should give the ICS alpha a try. I made the leap a couple months ago and haven't looked back. The usability improvements are fantastic. Even without hardware acceleration it runs solid. Just make a backup and you can jump back to cm7 if you want.

    I even tried the nightly build with acceleration. It is definitely smoother, but ill wait until some of the battery life issues are worked out.
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    Patience is a virtue.
    Remember Kindle is sold worldwide, Nook Tablet is USA only.
    Better screen sd slot and double memory is a kill feature, i bet a lot of kindle owners envy us :)
    I live in Cyprus (Europe) and i paid $250+$48 delivery + $45 VAT and taxes and am still very happy with my buy and i dont even have warranty and am the only one to have this tablet in my Country.
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    great joke your dual core device will become quad core

    Sent From my Kindle Fire
    Setup:Details are Below
    Cm7 Barebones+Raven's Kernel
    Minimum:300 Higher 1200mhz
    Go launcher Ex With MIUI Theme
    Games:MC3,Fifa 2012,Real Racing 2,Stick Cricket,Gangster Rio....
    Apps:Mx Video Player,JetVid,Titanium Backup,Opera Mobile,Dolphin HD,Adobe Reader
    Allow me to escort you out.

    http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1306
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    He's right. Rebellious isnt going to magically make two more cores grow out of the die. Our devices will still be dual core, but they'll have HW video acceleration.