CNET has made this speed test video below between the iPad2 and the Motorola XOOM. The Motorola XOOM has a NVidia Tegra 2, 1GHZ dual core cpu with 1GB RAM and the Ipad 2 an A5 1GHZ dual core with 512 MB RAM The XOOM seems faster than the iPad 2 but on the last web site loading page was very close to the XOOM. However the XOOM won 3 of 3 over the iPad 2. The HP TouchPad has a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-CPU APQ8060 1.2GHz with 1GB RAM, which means can be faster than both.
Yes, between both I would prefer the iPad2 . The XOOM was launched with the Honeycomb 3.0 not quiet accurate as people expected.
Well, I prefer to the iPad, as the iPad(Apple) are generally the first to deliver an experience that a mass market enjoys and appreciates. Though the Xoom really not bad, and I even turn to buy one, and got aneesoft for ready watching videos on it, but at last...