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pinsomniac 11-22-2012 10:29 AM

Fry's: 8GB Nook Tablet (refurbished) for $79.99 - free pickup or $7 ship
 
A number of people had asked me about this in the eBay Daily Deals thread. Now that it's live and confirmed to be available for shipping, here's the 8GB Nook Tablet.

Link: http://www.frys.com/product/7405045

chiaxa2911 11-22-2012 11:06 AM

got the nook color from ebay last night, can some1 pls tell what is the differences between these two? should i cancel the color and go with the tablet? thanks

dbz 11-22-2012 11:07 AM

twice as powerful but no bt capabilities

travfar 11-22-2012 11:10 AM

Sucks that the 8GB model also has 512MB versus 1024MB for the 16GB model.

Spacegho5t 11-22-2012 11:10 AM

This is super slick. Better build quality than the Kindle (in my opinion)

travfar 11-22-2012 11:13 AM

$92.19 picked up. $100 shipped or picked up w/gas. Hmm..... kills it.

Djules 11-22-2012 11:15 AM

That's a nice deal, but I'm betting Amazon will sell the old Kindle fire for 100$ at some point.
So I'm not sure if I should bite. I like the smaller form of the kindle.

The $59 Nook Color has just one CPU, but most kids don't care about specs, so It's a great gift.
The Tablet has twice the specs, but I might wait for the Kindle fire sales.

travfar 11-22-2012 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Djules (Post 55120022)
That's a nice deal, but I'm betting Amazon will sell the old Kindle fire for 100$ at some point.
So I'm not sure if I should byte. I like the smaller form of the kindle.

The $59 Nook Color has just one CPU, but most kids don't care about specs, so It's a great gift.
The Tablet has twice the specs, but I might wait for the Kindle fire sales.

The 16GB Tablet has twice the specs, the 8GB doesn't. It has a better CPU but the RAM and storage is the same. It's basically a Nook Color Tablet light. I'm thinking the 8GB must be the QC rejects of the 16GB. Either the RAM or the flash had faults so they are selling it out as a 8GB version. It's just standard parts binning.

If you guys don't have tax and shipping. I would definitely get this over the nook color. For me with both CA taxes and shipping/gas it pushes it up to $100. The nook color for $59 clean becomes more attractive. I'm thinking that B&N will sell this for $79 on their ebay store sooner or later.

Djules 11-22-2012 11:28 AM

The CPU is more than double the power, It's 2core A9 CPU over one A8 CPU That alone makes a huge change in specs. The 8GB can be upgraded with a SD card. The ram is the only similar factor.

deonlee1 11-22-2012 11:55 AM

$6 monitor fee?!!! Whatta ? Seriously?

CesarN 11-22-2012 11:58 AM

Ebay's deal was better at 59.99

old64mb 11-22-2012 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by travfar (Post 55120496)
I'm thinking the 8GB must be the QC rejects of the 16GB.

Eh, no.

The 8 GB came out as a direct response by B&N at that price point to the Kindle Fire, since it has the same exact hardware stats. The 16 GB came out several months earlier, was more expensive, and has 1 GB RAM versus the 512 MB of the 8 GB.

Just be aware that you have to be somewhat careful how you hack the 8 GB. Since it came out earlier, most of the dev work went into the 16 GB version and it's very easy to brick the 8 GB with the wrong mod.

mbaur78 11-22-2012 12:23 PM

how will i ever be able to sell mine after this!!! ;)

Parachute07 11-22-2012 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CesarN (Post 55122238)
Ebay's deal was better at 59.99

That was for the reader, not the tablet. Different product.

This one must not have been available for shipping for long......I tried not long after this deal was posted and it was only available for store pickup.......

notebookreunion 11-22-2012 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by deonlee1 (Post 55122136)
$6 monitor fee?!!! Whatta ? Seriously?

That and sales tax kills the deal for me!

green_key 02-06-2013 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by travfar (Post 55120496)
The 16GB Tablet has twice the specs, the 8GB doesn't. It has a better CPU but the RAM and storage is the same. It's basically a Nook Color Tablet light. I'm thinking the 8GB must be the QC rejects of the 16GB. Either the RAM or the flash had faults so they are selling it out as a 8GB version. It's just standard parts binning.

If you guys don't have tax and shipping. I would definitely get this over the nook color. For me with both CA taxes and shipping/gas it pushes it up to $100. The nook color for $59 clean becomes more attractive. I'm thinking that B&N will sell this for $79 on their ebay store sooner or later.

I got a BNTV250 nook from cowboom, and root using cynogenmod10. It's running great :lol:
Does the nook comes with bluetooth? I couldn't turn it on .. :rolleyes:


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