We just heard that Research in Motion is selling the BlackBerry PlayBook at the reduced holiday prices direct to customers.

At the time of this post, however, http://store.shopblackberry.com is down, presumably due to the site being overloaded from all the people trying to pick up the PlayBook.  We wondered if the BlackBerry PlayBook, even at $199, would be worth it.  From the speed at which retailers are selling out of the device at this price, I would say that ideed, it is…