New owner of Playbook 16GB reporting in.

Contrary to others, personally I don't find it necessary to put down/bash any other tablets just to make the Playbook look good. Each has its own merits and weaknesses. This coming from a guy with a Xoom and iPad 2 as well.

When you can access the web the way it is on a desktop, the websites are my apps. Browsing the web is its strength. Better than my iPad 2.

To a certain extent. I'm now into watching TV shows streamed directly instead of downloading them, Playbook does that with gusto. iPad? No option whatsoever, since it prohibits Flash. The normal web browsing experience is as good as iPad, pinch-to-zoom/scroll inertia and has the one-up on iPad when it comes to tabbed browsing and browsing Flash-heavy content websites.