iOS 5.x can use iCloud for everything including backups and syncing. My mother-in-law has an iPad that was set up and deployed without a computer, the iPad being her first gadget.
I cherished the goatse links! I'd innocently click on a link and milliseconds later be staring at a gaping anal maw. Then, seriously, I would laugh and think "got me"
The fact that goatse, lemonparty, 2g1c, etc. are now whined about makes even more vigilant to troll against Political Correctness at every opportunity.
I am a Mac/Linux user and I'm pretty darn happy with Nook's Android OS right now. I am guessing that the future Nooks are going to run some bastardized version of Windows? That would be my guess since it's "integrating with Windows 8".
If so this is my last Nook.
I had a Sony Trinitron on an old gaming rig that I ran at 100 Hz (most it could manage). I used an Elsa Revelator setup, 3D shutter glasses and video card.
Each eye got 50 FPS and it was smooth as butter for most games (late 90s, early 2000s). For some purposes higher rates monitors are a good idea.