I have had one for over a year and still use it heavily. Definitely a sturdy little machine. Of course... bad screen angles.

Team DRH made ICS possible for the gtab.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525367

Dunno that I would buy this for $199 when nVidia and Asus are talking about a 7 inch tablet with a Tegra 3 processor for $249.

I love mine with cyanogenmod ...if you get it.... google "gtablet for dummies" the guy there walks you through getting it all set up. The negatives are: the screen angles- which have never been a problem for me...especially with cyanogenmod because you can rotate the screeall the way around so that the angle view is clear, and the side charging port will probably stop working as it may come loose. I purchased a dock which charges and gives me hdmi to my tv via the bottom port -and also another usb slot.

Bad screen angles, much thicker and heavier than others and stock UI is terrible. But it's also cheap and does the job fine once you put a decent UI on there like cyanogen.
I let my kids play with it and keep the more expensive tablet for myself.
If you can afford it (extra $100?), pick up one of the Samsung Galaxy tablets instead - they're much lighter and thinner, have a much nicer screen and have a nice UI out of the box.

This is still my primary tablet. I travel back and forth from the US to Europe with it regulary. Viewsonic has abandoned it outside of warranty repairs, but the aftermarket modding community has kept this tablet strong since the very beginning. With the full release of Ice Cream Sandwich and it's associated drivers and code, the modding community continues to thrive.

You are not betting Transformer prime for this price, but I have been happy every day I used this one. This is a great starter tablet.

Personally, I think this is a waste of money. This unit is well over a year old (and was selling for $279 around that time) and Android 2.x is extremely old and not designed for tablet use. Others have mentioned major issues with it (like the horrible screen angles - yes, that becomes a problem). Look, for $150 more, you can get a Refurb iPad 2 straight from Apple and have something that's dramatically more useful, powerful and well designed. This becomes little more than a toy and an expensive one at that.

I have one, bought day one, and I have been running a non-stock ROM for as long as there has been alternatives. The stock UI is absolute garbage--although it tried to be innovative with the whole users thing... It is just horrible. It hinders the Tegra chip inside the tablet OH SO much...

It is mounted in my kitchen with sticky velcro dots and I use it for recipes and watching youtube videos when making dinner or when I need music in the kitchen. Hooray for SDCards with tons of space to download my google music to!

A couple more negatives to throw into the ring :)

Customer service is...bad. No, I take that back.. it's somewhere between nonexistent and bad.

These also have a problem with the power port.. poor soldering makes it so they break a LOT, which makes 'em useless.

Yeah, I bought mine about a year and a half ago. While it was great at the time, I certainly wouldn't buy one today.

I bought one of these over a year ago and it's been very good. Someone in my family uses it every single day and it's rock solid. I just updated mine to Android ICS a month ago and it is very stable and even a little faster! That being said if you are not someone comfortable with modding or custom ROMs then you will not be happy. The default Viewsonic version of Android is awful. You can find every thing you need at xda-developers.com to wipe that mess off and install a clean android os which will make it rock!