Not a very good choice, in my opinion. VZW should have either stuck with HP or gone with either ASUS or Dell. And yeah, free with 2-year contract would have been better than this joke of a deal.
And we can thank VZW for the 5 Gig cap crapola that everybody else has hitched onto in order to ramp up ARPU.
In this country, it's all about the money folks, nothing else matters; least of all value for dollar.