1,2,3 until the ipad fans come in saying that no respectable IT department would ever buy these, and that Kindergarteners need $500 ipads, and the only possible android tabs cost at least $400.
Make as many as you can, and a tiny HD video camera for cheap I’m always looking for. You can get a 720p camera, roughly th size of car keys or a pack of gum, for $40, no dropped frames, not interpolated.
Not sure why you’re bashing iPad fans.
Sure the thing is (may be) $25.
The display is...whatever you pay for an HDTV. $100-1000ish.
Keyboard and mouse may be cheap, say $15 rock bottom, $50ish for something decent. >$10 USB hub to connect both.
(Remember, fair viable comparison please; compare new and dedicated, not “I have these parts laying around already”.)
Local 16gb flash storage, about $25. Make sure that hub has enough ports.
WiFi “n” network interface, dunno, >$25.
Rechargeable battery pack, ~$25.
That’s around $250 minimum, and it’s not even packaged well. I just bought an Android Nook Color for that, and it’s a tiny tablet.
Tack on better batteries / optimized power, better packaging, multi-touch interface, couple cameras, good graphics, dual non-anemic processors, etc. and you’re into an iPad price easy.
It’s not that “no respectable IT department would ever buy these”, it’s just looking at what this thing doesn’t have that’s needed to make it usable.
I laud the pocket-change price of it, and the ability to use what most already have available (hey, it does composite video too!). Just if you’re going to bash us iPad fans out of the blue, methinks pushback is fair.