8GB would render it fairly useless. The Kindle Fire is the only tablet that ships with 8 and that's primarily because they expect users will take advantage of their streaming services. Even then it's pretty crappy overhead but you can justify it in a $200 device.
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8GB would render it fairly useless. The Kindle Fire is the only tablet that ships with 8 and that's primarily because they expect users will take advantage of their streaming services. Even then it's pretty crappy overhead but you can justify it in a $200 device.
An important use for me is entertainment while travelling. As I live in one of the smaller European countries, any moderately long journey I make is international, so streaming is not an option (and of course it still isn't available here yet). Of course if I'm going by air, streaming is even more unlikely (some airlines have WiFi these days, but it ain't cheap). Ideally my iPad would be to video what the iPod is to music: my whole collection with me all the time so I don't have to chose in advance what I want to watch. Using Handbrake's iPad setting, converting my DVD collection (only about 1/3 done at the moment) has produced way more than 64 GB already.