Tablets: RIM BlackBerry Playbook Kicks iPad Browsing-Butt

If you don’t know by now, I’m a hardcore Apple fan, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think for myself. I said back in September 2010 that the BlackBerry Playbook looked like the first true tablet contender to Apple’s iPad. Fast forward to the present and RIM has impressed me again with some updates. Part of that killer Playbook package includes Flash support, but what’s more — much faster rendering times for web pages. Here’s the update.

Watch the video below, which seems to show Playbook doing everything faster, from pulling up the on-screen keyboard to loading web pages. It even shows marginally better performance on the Acid3 Browser Test:

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