Still Looking for a Tablet

I was leaning strongly towards the Lenovo Ideapad 1A. The $200 price tag with 16 GB of built-in storage seemed very likely to be a good choice. I don't tend to do things that need a super-fast processor, and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) seems to be well supported. Then I discovered that it was sold out. The Future Shop and Best Buy stores who handled it, no longer had it. I could find it available online at Future Shop online store, where I had previously had a bad experience. (A flat bed scanner arrived dead-in-the-box. They accepted it back but I was stuck with $20 return postage.) I could also find it online from Lenovo, but they were asking $250. I would definitely not pay that much for it!

Unless I can find a better deal soon, I will probably go with the Acer Iconia. It has only 8 GB of built-in storage, but is expandable. It is faster than the Ideapad 1A, has 1 GB RAM instead of 512 MB, and runs Android 3.2 (Honeycomb). It is probably more tablet than I need. But the customer reviews give a satisfaction rating of 4.5/5 versus 3.5/5 for the Ideapad. I have read a lot of reviews on various tablets over the past week, and some of them are downright scary.

I am still looking for other options. $280 is a lot of money, but I want to be satisfied with what I get. (It is that Scottish blood acting up again.)