A few more days in and I have mostly been studying about Android. I agree with Kyoo. Storage is cheap ($17 for 32 gb? Pure SF in 1985 when I started messing with computers) so $50 seemed like a lot for 8 gb. I too plan to root and use stickmount. With a handful of microSD cards I can carry my entire media world in a matchbox. As Richardright observes, 8 gig is plenty if all you do is install apps.