[briancooley]

I love my iPad, but I think memory is a pretty big deal, especially if you want to do real multitasking. The numbers might not matter to the average consumer, but the experience will.

Open up several tabs in your browser and look at the memory that's being consumed, then tell me you won't care about 256MB vs 1GB of memory on a tablet that most people are going to use to surf the internet.

Not having to constantly reload pages was probably the most eye-opening thing for me using the XOOM (tabbed) browser versus the Browser in my original iPad.

Memory is conspicuously absent from the specs page (http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/)