Should i buy the discounted playbook

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Roger Cheng. We are already starting to see some of these promotions being implemented in the form of instant rebates and gift cards within the consumer channel, and expect these promotions to continue into the holiday season. The BlackBerry PlayBook has established itself as a high-performance tablet, and we are confident that these activities, along with the upcoming software upgrade, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.

Awesome tablet, but they messed up by not making it a stand alone device. I've had several tablets come across my desk including the Ipad 2 and the touch on the PB is the smoothest. It also runs flash like a champ. The PlayBook received especially tough criticism, with critics noting the tablet launched without native e-mail, calendar and contacts apps.

And yet, Best Buy now can't seem to keep the tablets on the shelves. All versions of the PlayBook are now marked as " sold out online " on BestBuy. RIM's official store offers PlayBooks for direct sale, though now warns items may take up to seven days to ship due to the high volume of recent orders. Manufacturers have clearly found the magic price point for customers who don't want to shell out iPad-level amounts of cash.

This is perhaps best exemplified by the success of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, which was the best-selling item site wide over the holiday weekend, according to Amazon. But there's still a problem for the RIMs and HPs of the world: They can't afford to sell their tablets at these bargain-bin prices. Amazon, however, can afford to take a loss when selling its Kindle Fire hardware, as the company relies on its online shopping portal to recoup -- and broadly offset -- the costs of manufacturing, shipping, and marketing.