2012 Holiday Gift Guide: The 5 Best Tablets (and e-Readers)

The New iPad (4th Generation)

Price: $500 (16GB), $600 (32GB), and $700 (64GB)
As much as Apple haters love to downplay the iPad, truth is the Cupertino Clan has created the best tablet ever. Period. That’s it, end of discussion. The fourth-gen model ups the ante by sporting a 2048 x 1536 Retina Display that generates the best visuals of any portable device on the market, along with the A6X processor for high performance. Apple’s industry-leading ecosystem still excels and access to the company’s ginormous App Store guarantees endless entertainment on the go. Some say it’s still overpriced, but hey, money is no object when it comes to purchasing the latest i-device as millions of consumers have shown us.