Same goes for me. I desperately wanted to get anything but an ipad. I tried many many tablets, the Xoom, Acer Iconia, the Viewpad etc, but they were all relatively heavy, and none of them do anything better than an ipad. Sure they all compete, and its nice to have something different with the Android home screen, but they all lack polish. And every contender comes with Android, which just doesn't have many tablet specific apps.
Thats where they fall short. And then I always thought back to the ipad. It checks the boxes and does so in style and finesse. My only complaint is the lack of a higher res screen, but hey, the isheep need a reason to upgrade.