How is HP's shopping site so incredibly bad? How many different servers can we force the users' browsers to hit to load the cart. Loving the error msg:
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TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99
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#22Wow, even the walmart where I live, and I live in podunk, sold out at 9am
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#23That link is sold out but I was able to purchase one from OfficeMax (online) at the discounted price.
I just got one from office max offline. In fact I am using it to type this comment.
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#24What I find interesting are the anecdotes (of which I've now seen several) of first-time tablet owners buying TouchPads because they're so cheap.
One has to wonder if HP hasn't inadvertently created a whole new group of future iPad owners.
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#25Meanwhile, HP UK have them at £349/429 for 16/32GB. Pity, for anywhere near $99 it'd make sense for me.
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#26So, is that only happening online or also in the real world? Also, is it worldwide? I just happened to be at a (German) electronics retailer and they still sell the pads for their old prices and the people there know nothing about a reduction in price.
(They are also still selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, preliminary injunction be damned :)
– Edit: Also, I played around with it a bit. It certainly wasn’t as bad as some made it sound. The tablet was not connected to the internet (none where, which makes testing all that harder) but no matter what I tried, everything was very snappy – to a degree that the Honeycomb tablets weren’t really. (I have unreasonably high standards.) The only thing that tended to take some time was launching apps.
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#27goes to prove they had a desirable product, wrong price point!
Err, yeah, but it's priced below cost
Sure, down vote at will! My point wasn't that the current price was the right price, but that it was overpriced before. Clearly, there is a demand for the product. Maybe an experiment with a happy medium would have been a good experiment before tossing out the entire product.
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#28What I find interesting are the anecdotes (of which I've now seen several) of first-time tablet owners buying TouchPads because they're so cheap. One has to wonder if HP hasn't inadvertently created a whole new group of future iPad owners.
Can you share some of these? Should be interesting reading.
I'm mostly seeing nerds going crazy at the cheap hackable tablet.
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#30so, the price is back to $499? :)
http://i.imgur.com/SnLjT.png
