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3 years x $336 per year= $1008, granted it includes a 3G connection, that seems incredibly expensive to me for what they're offering.

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I think a good comparison is to an iPad, where the top-of-the line model with 3g costs $829. So this isn't too much more expensive than that; the question is whether it's $180 better than an iPad 2.

That's not a valid comparison. The iPad with 3G does not include the cost of the data connection. This includes a 100MB/month connection with the cost of the subscription.

Well, 100MB is roughly 30 minutes of youtube.

So if you intend to do anything other than checking your e-mail over that connection then you'd better factor in the cost for a real data plan.

Note that iPad 2 cost comes with 3G but does not include COST of 3G service. iPad 2 will be way more expensive if you include this cost.

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