Comment Avoid Motorola (Score 1) 396
Whatever you do, avoid buying anything Android related from Motorola. I bought a Milestone (UK version), which had "flash ready" advertised on the box. Flash requires Froyo, and Moto have repeatedly pushed back the release date (most recently from Q4 2010 to Early Q1 2011).
Phones by other manufactures can avoid this issue by using unofficial roms. We dont expect company support forever, and the open source community picks up the slack and continues to support older devices (example - early HTC android devices can run froyo).
Motorola however have locked their boot loader, so only the stock kernel can boot. They use strong on-chip encryption for this (think Playstation style public/private key stuff, except Moto used a proper random number generator...). This means that the unoffical roms are half arsed, as they cannot fix issues in the stock kernel. The device has been rooted however (by way of an exploit, not help from Motorola).
So, if you buy a motorola tablet, expect to a) be unable to put software of your choosing on their and b) no upgrades from Motorola after about 12 months. Also if my experience with the milestone is anything to go by, it will have unfixed bugs remaining after support has stopped.
See http://www.facebook.com/motorolaeurope for motorolas "marketing" facebook page - its hilarious - every post is commented on hundreds of times with people complaining about the lack of updates and locked boot loader. That page must be harming moto, yet they keep it up. Its funny...
If the Xoom was made by anyone else, id buy it in a shot, but once bitten...