But, get it turned the right way 'round and you'll find a petite chrome power button on the right side of the upper edge. That said, the tablet's dark, simple design doesn't make room for many externally defining characteristics, making figuring out which way is 'up' a bit of a challenge. The iPad or the Tab give impressions of solidity, of devices with not a hint of room to spare (despite that not necessarily being the case), but the TouchPad feels like there's plenty of space in there for, well, more stuff. A concave shape makes it comfortable to hold for those of us with bigger hands, more so than the flat profiles of those more slender machines mentioned above, but that comes at the expense of it feeling a bit hollow. It's reminiscent of the early, similarly sheen PS3 consoles - cool to touch and nice to look at, but an astonishingly effective fingerprint magnet. Its back is black plastic, glossy with a piano-like finish. It weighs in at 1.65 pounds (750 grams), heavier than the 1.3 pound (600 gram) iPad 2, heavier than the 1.26 pound (570 gram) Galaxy Tab 10.1, and heavier even than the 1.6 pound (730 gram) Motorola Xoom - which is itself hardly a delicate flower.

Keep pulling and the pressure equalizes, the box yields, and you're granted access to what can only be called a somewhat chunky tablet. The TouchPad slides out of its cardboard box with a lot of resistance, a precise paper seal creating a vacuum that does its best to keep its tablet firmly ensconced within.

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