Motorola Xoom up for Pre-Order; Release Date Feb. 24

February 24 really will be a big day! Not only will the new MacBook Pros come out, but the Motorola Xoom tablet will be released! You can pre-order it now on Best Buy. It will only be avaliable as a 3G model, and will have a rather high price tag of $800. Motorola should release a Wi-Fi only model a little bit later, and that will carry a price tag of $600. Meanwhile, I can supply you with information about this tablet:

- Runs on Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb), the latest OS designed for tablets (will it only be for tablets?)
- 720p HD 10.1" display (even larger than the iPad's display, about the size of a netbook's)
- Verizon 3G service. Also Wi-Fi capable.
- Dual-core processor
- Supports Adobe Flash Player

3 New Apple Laptop SKUs Appear at Best Buy!

Best Buy still has those new iPad SKUs up, and now they've got new MacBook Pro SKUs up! Their labels are "new SKU", and their prices are $1,199, $1,499, $1,799, $2,199 (which are all prices of the current MacBook Pros, and a $2,499 price tag, suggesting that Apple will make another 17" option avaliable.

Best Buy to accept Motorola Xoom pre-orders for $1,199 on Thursday?!

Of all the posts I've made on Tech n' Cars!, this has been the most shocking. Best Buy is going to accept pre-orders for the Motorola Xoom tablet on Thursday... okay... but for $1,199?!?! There isn't even anything to suggest this is a prank or a mistake! I mean, cool, this tablet has a bigger screen than an iPad and runs Honeycomb, but, I'd rather have a MacBook Pro, thank you very much.

Update: You're in luck: this is just a placeholder number that will soon get updated. The actual price will be $800, only $70 more than a 32GB 3G iPad.

The iPad 2 on Best Buy?

 

If you look at Best Buy's site, you'll notice that three new iPads have went on sale, named "APPLE COMPUTER INC. - APPLE IPAD SKU WIFI". The site also states that they are "coming soon". Two of them cost $599.99, while the third costs $699.99. No further information is included on the site, not even a picture. It is true, however, that in May 2009 an unspecified gadget named a "mobile computing device" appeared on their site that turned out to be the new MacBook Apple released only two days later. This could just be a naughty employee or a hacker's prank, however.