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Distant #2. The only reason I would buy it instead is if I needed the tablet to have its own cellular capability.
You're talking about the two Android lines that have overwhelmingly the highest customer satisfaction right now: Samsung's Galaxy line and Google's Nexus line. If you want the SD slot for more space, as you pointed out, then the Note has an advantage for cheap storage there. Not sure what one needs all that space for on a tablet. I fill up my SD slot with movies I've optimized for it (I like to use HDMI to show them through large TV's), but even if your card is 64GB you're not going to be able to build up an appreciable library or anything. Hell, in my case, I want the highest quality, so I use DVD Catalyst to convert torrented movie files from PHD that enable my tablet to run a smooth framerate of 720p video with up to 6.0 MB/s bitrate. This means that each movie is between 2.5GB-4.0GB. So nothing is on there for long. It's just a temporary conduit that allows me to share HD movies with friends without having to stuff money into the Redbox. With my phone, I wish I could put a 256GB card in the damn thing because I store as much of my music library on there as possible.
The thing with tablets is that they're glorified vessels for visual media. For that reason, IMO, the single most important spec is the display, and the Nexus 10 obliterates the Galaxy Note 10.1. Furthermore, the fact that the Note 10.1 is native to ICS, not Jellybean, really makes me nervous. Trust me, you want to share the OS with the most popular devices on your platform. That's the Galaxy S3 smartphone, and it's a Jellybean device.
If you have experience with both Samsung's Touchwiz to compare the vanilla Android feel of the Nexus products, then you can go on that. As a piece of hardware, the Nexus 10 is significantly superior.
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