End of story for me: I did get a cheap tablet.

[Euphoria14]

^ My Android device lets me download music free, streams movies from netflix and amazon prime, Internet supports flash, amazon gives one free paid app per day, grants access to free books and library access, has great apps for your everyday needs, plus it costs $400+ less. Plus, while it only comes with 8gb of space, your apps and stuff get stored on the amazon cloud, so the storage is much greater in reality.

Kindle Fire is a real good device. Same specs as the Blackberry Playbook pretty much, yet more than half the price it launched at, which was $800.