I've been using Motorola's Xoom tablet since April and I have to say I really like it.
   I just wanted to provide a little review of what I like and don't like on the Xoom.
Motorola's Xoom URL


The Xoom hardware: The Xoom is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to hardware.  The power the Dual Core Tegra 2 CPU provides leaves no room for complaint.  Well maybe a little for speed freaks like myself.  God I remember the day when you called someone a speed freak and it was a bad thing  
  With a resolution of 1280x800 on a 10.1" screen, the video on the Xoom is the best I've seen on anything less than a full fledged HD laptop.  The resolution is one thing, but it's packed at a 150 pixels per inch(ppi).
  If you remember the old dot pitch measurement used before LCD screens, aka flat panels came around, that's a dot pitch of approx. .169(.17).   That's better than the iPad 2's 132 ppi, but still doesn't come anywhere close to the 326 ppi the iPhone 4 is packing.  I have to give Jobs cudos on that one, he got some good hardware put together on that project. 
  I think the biggest disappointment on the Xoom is the disabled microSD slot.
  I really for the life of me don't understand what hardware or software wise, could have prevented them from enabling this.
  I do however have an idea on a management reason!  It's entirely plausible it was decided a microSD card would negatively impact the Xoom's performance and ultimately impact sales.  Let me explain!  What I mean by this statement is, the use of a microSD card would enable users to move applications to the microSD card to free up space on the built in memory.  With each app they do this with it would slow down any access to that data stored on the microSD card since they are a lot slower than the 32GB of memory built into the Xoom.  So with that said, if there is any data daemons running that would be stored or accessed on the microSD it could and probably would slow down the entire Android system resulting in a noticeable performance hit.
  While this idea makes a lot of sense to me, I believe the sales benefit of having it enabled would have, dollar wise, been better to have enabled it and take the criticism. 
  The bright side of the microSD issue is 32GB of built in memory is pretty darn good, so I'm sure not complaining. 
  The speakers on the Xoom do a pretty good job.  I don't get the Bose quality sound I would like, but for a flat tablet they're a lot better than my laptops speakers.
 

The Xoom Software: Based off of Android Honeycomb 3.0, the system runs pretty darn well.  The update to Honeycomb 3.1 has already been pushed out by the way, but I really couldn't point to what has changed.  I believe I noticed a better performance, but it might just be me. 
  Now if you're use an Android based phone with a decent screen size to it, you really won't notice much difference on the Xoom operational wise.  The main thing is you really feel more at home with all the real estate on the 10.1" screen.
 Soft keyboard wise, the default is nice, but I found my self stretching my thumbs to the middle a little cumberson for trying to type at a decent.   I solved this issue with a great keyboard called "Thumb Keyboard" on the Android Market.  This thing is well worth the $2.49 I paid for it.  Great job Beansoft!
  {CAUTION}: Keep in mind, installing apps like an addition keyboard can easily contain a key logger in the code, so be careful what you use and remember to check out the app by doing a little research first and see if anybody had any complaints or reviews.  I'm not endorsing any program here OR saying it's malware free.  I just like it!  If they put a key logger in it, I'll take care of that when I meet the developers
  One last honorable mention I should make on the software side, is a little app pre-installed on Honeycomb 3.0 called "Movie Studio".  As the name implies, it's a little movie making app you can put your videos and picture together with and create a little movie.  Now I haven't stressed this thing out to see how much MB wise it will put together, but I did a little 10 second video and it took about 13-15 seconds to create it.  Not bad and that's kind of comparable with a PC app for the same thing.

UPDATE:  I forgot to mention one addition item on charging.  It is definitely worth mentioning the charging is NOT done using the mini USB connection.  The mini USB is only used for syncing/accessing from the PC.  The actual charging is a small round cable on a 12VDC 2.0amp adapter.  They have it in a 12 Volt adapter for the car or the 120-220VAC house charger.


The Xoom Usability:  Hmmm, usablility wise, the Xoom rocks.  I've used it tethered while doing some sight seeing overseas and I have to say it sure beats the hell out of navigating with a 4" screen using Goggle Maps  
  Now concerning ports and such!  They really could have placed the charging port in another place of than the place that is the bottom of the unit when you hold it.   The problem here is the Portfolio case Motorola designed sits the unit with the charging port (and ever other port except the head phones) at the bottom.  This doesn't allow for charging while in the case, other than closed. 
  Now on the bright side, did I mention this thing has mini HDMI out  

UPDATE:  I forgot to mention the battery life.  I have no complaints so far.  I lives up to the projected 10 hours of wifi browsing.   I can tell after a month of heavy usage the battery may have lost a minor amount of battery life, but I also can contribute that to the way I've been using it.  I'll know more after 6 months or so.


The Xoom pricetag:  Well there's only one thing I can say on the price tag.  I bought mine at Costco for for $589 and if the price tag would have been $100 less I wouldn't have to have thought about as long as I did.  That's a lot of money for something other than a laptop or desktop PC.


Overall:  Well, overall the Xoom rocks!  It's definitely the rooster in the hen house as we used to say on the farm.  Is it worth the money, well I can't really say, it was to me.
  In my humble opinion or IMO as you texting freaks say, the combination of Honeycomb 3.0/1 and the Motorola hardware beats the iPad 2 hands down.
  How can I say that, do I own an iPad2 you may say!  Hell no!  That's why I bought the Xoom!   ROFLMAO!

The following procedure will clear any used email addresses you have entered into fields in IE 8.
  In other words, if you have used johndoe@farmit.com to log into facebook and do not want it to show up any as a previously used email address perform the following.

1. Open IE 8.
2. Click on the [Tools] button and select Internet Options.  The Internet Options window will open.

3. In the Browsing History area, click on the [Delete...] button.  The Delete Browsing History window will open.

4. Select the Form Data check-box and review the others selections that are checked. 
NOTE: Normally the following options are checked for you already.  You may want to un-check the History selection to retain the list of websites you have previously visited. 

5. Once you have ensured only the options you want to delete (in addition to the form data option ) are selected, click on the [Delete] button.  Window closes and returns to Internet Options window.

6. In the Internet Options window,  click on the [OK] button.

YOUR ALL DONE!!! 

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Problem Description: 
While trying to troubleshoot network issues the windows firewall appeared to be blocking network traffic, but the firewall was not enabled.  This can usually be resolved by the following article MS has posted in their Knowledge Base.

Again, remember all copyrights, etc. belong to the appropriate individuals, companies, etc.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892199

Description:  After using outlook to check my mail, I close Outlook 2003 the process keeps running and the icon remains on the task tray.  If I have the option to "Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages" selected the winword.exe also remains running.  I have had this problem for a few months now and finally got tired of it and was determine to figure out what was going on. 

Problem:  After some checking of COM Add-Ins... and the Add-In Manager... I found the iTunes Outlook Addin was keeping Outlook from completely closing and allowing it to constantly check email after it was closed.

Resolution:  To resolve this issue and stop the rogue Addin from keeping outlook open for it's own use perform the following procedure:

1. If not already, open Outlook.
2. Click on Tools and select Options
3. Select the Other tab and click on the [Advanced Options...] button.
4. Click on the [COMM Add-Ins...] button.
5. De-select the iTunes Outlook Addin and click on the [Ok] button.
6. Click on the [Ok] button to close the Advance Options window.
7. Click on the [Ok] button to close the Options window.
8. Close Outlook, by click on the X in the upper right of the outlook window or select File > Exit.
9. Reboot your computer or just logout and log back in again to ensure outlook.exe is completely closed.
10. Launch outlook and verify it actually closes when you tell it too.

{PC INFO Tip}  If you are familiar with Task Manager, you can use it to ensure the outlook.exe process is closed instead of rebooting or logging off the machine.

FOLLOW UP:  It appears the latest Firefox update 3.5.7 may have resolved this issue.

Problem:  This is a very interesting problem that I had and it only existed in Firefox 3.  I use list to organize friends from work, home town, etc.  I recently added a friend to one of the list.   When I went back to All Friends and selected the friend list that I added them to, they did not show up.

  While checking the problem I was curious is IE 8 and Google Chome had the same problem and they did NOT.  So now I had it isolated to a FireFox problem.  I spent about an hour trying to figure out why it was not displaying.  I out of curiousity figured it might be a caching problem so I tried deleting offline files and reducing the size to 1 MB.  This made no difference and the problem still existed.  

  Out of frustration I uninstalled firefox and reinstalled it, which to my surprise the re-installing Firefox did NOT fix the problem. 

  I will post a resolution if I find it, but I just wanted to get this out there so you would know your are not crazy in case you have the same problem.

FOLLOW UP:  This is very interesting.  I didn't find a fix for firefox, but I did determine it is definetly a Firefox unique problem.  IE 8 and Google Chrome to NOT have this problem.  I have or at least tried submitting a trouble ticket to Firefox, but it was a pain.  Seems they don't take problem reports very easily. 

Anyway if you have this problem, use another browser to edit your lists. 

Description:

When a normal non-administrator user tries to logon to the linux machine they get the following error:
"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem."

Problem:
The /tmp directory lost it's correct persmissions.

Fix:
Open a terminal window and as root run the following command:
chmod 1777 /tmp

PROBLEM: 
  Unlike previous versions of Windows, Vista does not have a way to calibrate your battery for those laptops that do not have a BIOS option to do so.
  In previous version you just set all the power options to NEVER and the laptop would run until the battery completely discharges.
  In Vista the NEVER or Do Nothing option is not available for the "Critical battery action" > "On battery"
This means the only way to accomplish this is for the OS to run until all power is gone and it turns off.  I don't mean windows turns it off, but ...<< MORE >>