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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. I've used a fair variety of mobile OSes now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Played with iOS and Android more than a little. The winner for best interface goes to WebOS, by a landslide. I didn't expect to like my Touchpad this much, but it's just leaps and bounds ahead of my Android and iOS stuff...

    Damnit, HP. Why must everything you touch turn to crap?

    1. Re:I've used a fair variety of mobile OSes now... by spiffydudex · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I agree, the interface is great for doing everyday tasks. Love the simplicity in the email client. The only thing I did was disable the logging and increase the CPU to its standard 1.5ghz. The Pad is rock solid and for around 250$ you can get a 32gb model second hand. Great Deal in my opinion. Some may comp,ain about the lack of apps. Yes, the WebOS store is young. However, Games aside, I haven't found an app that wouldnt do what I needed productivity-wise. Now with Cyanogen claiming they want to be able to dual boot WebOS and Android, its just icing on the already delicious cake.

  2. I'M STILL WAITING ON MINE!! by iamhassi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Um, HP? Remember me? The guy that paid you $131.95 at 3am on August 21st? Yeah, haven't received my TouchPad yet and you haven't refunded my money. Every day you update it with a new ship date and delivery date, now it says Sept 27th ship date.

    How can you be selling these to your employees when you haven't even shipped the ones you still owe your customers?

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    my karma will be here long after I'm gone
  3. can we call writing half by somersault · · Score: 3, Interesting

    of your comment in the subject line the "WTF effect"?

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    which is totally what she said
  4. Re:I can see it coming back. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, the eBay price is the price point that tablet makers should be looking at. Turns out that many TouchPads are selling for about $200-$250. If I were Microsoft, I would be watching very carefully. Since MS is loaded with cash, why not sell the MS tablet for a loss so that you can create an instant community. Apple did this by being the first to create a usable tablet; the next table has to do something different to compete so why not use price?

  5. Touchpad vs. iPad by SoTerrified · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was one of the lucky few who got one of the $99 HP Touchpads in the store. And, as an iPad owner, I have to say... My iPad was gathering dust. I originally bought the iPad because I was sold on the apps. It seemed like there were so many and I could do anything! But it didn't take long to realize that doing any kind of involved work on a touchpad was slow and awkward. And soon I was just using my laptop for any of that. All I used the iPad for was web browsing, and watching video. Enter the Touchpad. For browsing the web? A superiour experience, as not only do I have flash, but I quite like the webOS cards for handling multiple browser windows. For viewing media? I have a homebuilt PVR that I use to record tv shows. They are recorded in a format supported by the Touchpad. So how much effort is involved in transfering my TV shows to the Touchpad? I just plug it in, the Touchpad shows up like a USB drive, and I transfer files. Compare that to having to run iTunes and open files and synch... The Touchpad is just so much more convenient. You can argue specs, you can argue "The iPad has apps!" But as an item filling a niche between laptops and smart phones and finding myself with access to both, I'm reaching for the Touchpad much more than I'm reaching for my iPad.

    TL;DR I never would've checked out the HP Touchpad except for the price. But now that I have, it has already displaced my iPad as a better product for my needs.

    1. Re:Touchpad vs. iPad by striker64 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      are you seriously surprised by this? The PC industry has spent years and countless man hours making things easy to use, yet still powerful for users like us to do whatever we want with the tech. Then comes along apple and tells us that the great progress we've made is all worth shit, we need isolated apps and don't need to interconnect any which device we want, who needs that stuff? And the general population eats it up like its a free krsipy kreme donut! Sure apple perfected the touchscreen and snazzy animations, but I can't help but think they've set us back so far in terms of computing advancement, and will remain that way so long as their app store model maintains a foothold.