There is no cheaper Xoom. There simply isn’t. The comparison is entirely valid. Prices matter. Case in point: Apple has no competitive budget laptop. Their che

There is no cheaper Xoom. There simply isn’t. The comparison is entirely valid. Prices matter. Case in point: Apple has no competitive budget laptop. Their cheap plastic laptop costs $1,000 while competitors sell budget laptops for $500. Sure, some spec might be minimally better here and there, that doesn’t change anything about the fact that those $500 laptops are perfectly competent and Apple has nothing to beat them. (The only difference is that Apple explicitly doesn’t want to sell a budget laptop but the iPad’s competitors position themselves as, well, competitors.)