Apple iPad 2 Versus Motorola Xoom

Great stuff from Andy Ihnatko - particularly given his earlier glowing review of the Xoom.

Apple iPad 2 is here and tablet rivals need to hit the drawing board:

But you kind of have to hold the iPad 2 to really get the redesign. It’s thinner by a third, plus its edges taper to a thin line of metal. It’s almost inconceivable that this thing you’re holding is a multicore tablet computer. The Xoom tablet is trim, light, and very pretty ... but when you place it next to the iPad 2, it looks as though it was designed and built by angry Soviet prison labor instead of by Motorola.