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HP Touch Pad Still Popular ... With HP Employees

Posted by timothy on from the they-were-there-when-it-happened dept.

Earl The Squirrel joins the army of Slashdot submitters, with a story that dampens my hopes to get one of the last (cheap) HP Touch Pads. He writes: "Today HP made available to their employees (via their EPP store) one last batch of HP Touch Pads. The response has been so overwhelming that if you go to the HP store right now, you'll get the 'Please try again later' page. HP employees have 'slashdotted' their own store."

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  1. Re:I guess reselling TouchPads might appeal some.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    HP employees probably wanna make as much cash on the side as they can now, knowing their impending unemployment.

  2. BeOS part two? by jtseng · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems like webOS is going to die an undeserved death. It was conceived by a company too small to survive and came late into the game, and it will be killed by a company too stupid to know what it has and what to do with it.

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  3. Re:I've used a fair variety of mobile OSes now... by strength_of_10_men · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WebOS itself is pretty awesome, but the default browser needs serious work. It can't load any slashdot discussion past 100 comments without flaking out with rendering issues.

    And considering that browsing and reading are the two big reasons I wanted a tablet for, this is a pretty serious drawback to an otherwise excellent deal.