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A Quickie Look at the Hardware
If you’re the kind of guy or gal who loves specs, read on, because here’s where
you’ll learn what’s under the hood. (Don’t care about hardware? Skip on to the
next section.)
The NOOK Tablet is powered by a 1 GHz (gigahertz) dual-core processor and
comes with plenty of RAM to run the tablet and all its apps. Not sure what that
means? Simple: The NOOK Tablet is super-fast.
NOTE
The NOOK Color has an 800 Mhz single-core processor and 512 MB of RAM. No, it’s not quite
as fast as the NOOK Tablet, but that’s still more than enough power to do most everything you want
it to do.
You can get two versions of the NOOK Tablet. One, which costs $249, comes
with 16 GB of memory, of which 13 GB is available for your stuff (the other mem-
ory is used by the operating system.) Of that 13 GB, 12 GB is reserved for Barnes
and Noble content. You can also buy a MicroSD card with an additional 32 GB
of memory.
The other version costs $199, and comes with 8 GB of memory, of which 6GB is
available for content, with 5 GB of that reserved for Barnes and Noble content.
As with the more expensive NOOK Tablet, you can buy a MicroSD card with an
additional 32 GB of memory. Both versions measure 8.1 by 5.0 by 0.48 inches,
and weigh a mere 14.1 ounces. They’ve got great battery life: Up to 11.5 hours for
reading, or 9 hours for video.
NOTE
The NOOK Color has 8 GB of memory and 6 GB for content, with 5 GB of that reserved for
Barnes & Noble content. It measures 8.1 by 5.0 by 0.48 inches and weighs 15.8 ounces. Its battery life
is good for 8 hours of reading.
The NOOK Tablet also comes with a built-in WiFi card for connecting to hotspots
and WiFi networks, as well as all the hardware you’ll read about in the next
section.