It works well, so far. The Wifi works well, the apps generally work well, the touch-screen is bright and generally works well. It took a long time to figure out how to get the Micro SDHC cards to be recognized. It turns out that they're only recognized after the display has been cycled off and on via the on/off switch. After that, one sees all 32 GB (FAT32 format).

I've tried a variety of PPT viewers. None are perfect (at least not with J's presentations). The best fidelity with her Mac desktop version is converting the PPT to a PDF and using the genuine Adobe Reader. We were hoping to find a way to time dry runs like in Office slide shows, but the best thing we've found thus far is to start a timer application, then start the PDF reader. The timer will continue running in the background.

Likes: Size, weight, cost, battery life. Angry Birds is fun. Easy to update to ICS via Wifi.

Dislikes: Sometimes the screen is temperamental about responding to some finger presses (especially in Firefox). Sometimes FF and the standard browser locks up for unknown reasons - presumably more usage will delineate the safe working area. Not quite as responsive as our gen-1 iPad (e.g. slower to rotate from portrait to horizontal). The manual isn't very informative (like about the micro SDHC issue above).

I think it's a great choice. J isn't enamored by it yet, but she hasn't spent much time with it. She's got another trip this Friday - maybe she'll use it then.

Recommended, but maybe check out the upcoming competition.

Cheers,
Scott.