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

      I have much the same experience. I haven't used it enough to really fall in love with it but I like the nuances so far. We have replaced the home laptop with it for most tasks which saves a ton of power.

      Given that Power = mc2 / T, where T is the time you have been using the tablet, "a ton of power" is very impressive. Do you usually use nuclear explosions to represent your 1 bits?

    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.

  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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    1. Re:I'M STILL WAITING ON MINE!! by iamhassi · · Score: 4, Informative

      "ou could have dropped it to $199 and sold all your inventory, made twice as much money and not piss off customers. " based on what? WTF do you base 199 would sell out? hmm? fucking nothing, that's what. Idiot.

      When I look at their sales, their sales channel, I can see exactly why they chose 99 dollars. No other 99 dollar table sells that fast, and 199 tables are even worse. But no, you don't look at the industry, and your hubris doesn't let you think "hmmm, I wonder why they chose 99 dollars?" no, you just go to 'stupid'.

      Are you kidding? There is no other tablet even close to the Touchpad's specs for under $200. Dual core 1.2ghz, 9.7" multi-touch capacitive screen, 16gb, webcam, 802.11a/b/g/n, bluetooth. Closest thing with those specs is a $500 iPad 2.

      They're still selling for over $200 on Ebay now even though everyone knows people bought them for $99

      $99 was so low that HP is being sued by stockholders for misleading them.

      ah you're AC! dammit i shouldn't even respond to you trolls

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  3. 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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  4. can we call writing half by somersault · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

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  5. Re:What HP should have done by nine-times · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like we have an MBA in the house.

    1. Sell your product at a loss
    2. Rely on "synergy"
    3. Profit!
  6. 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.

  7. Indeed. People shouldn't mix subject and body text by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Funny

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  8. Re:I guess reselling TouchPads might appeal some.. by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    Maybe Meg will give them good feedback for their résumés.

    A+++ worker, would hire again.

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