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see - you CAN compete with the iPad: it's all a matter of price ;-)
The loss of webOS is a damn shame. Best case scenario, it becomes the Amiga of the tablet world, with die-hard fans keeping it clinging to life with hacks and homebrews.
It took a while to get through, but I was able finally able to order one through the HP Small & Medium Business Store ( http://www.hp.com/sbso/ ). Had to pay for shipping though.
Just tried on the site. It lets you add it to the cart, then it seems like it crashes. Did you go through this as well?
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Just tried on the site. It lets you add it to the cart, then it seems like it crashes. Did you go through this as well?
Just keep trying. Took me about 30 minutes of refreshing and error messages at every step to get one.
At $99 it would make for a pretty good digital picture frame. You would just need to remember to reboot it every couple of days.
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BestBuy is no longer selling them and if you click on a link for HP Touchpad from the back to school page it shows an error message.
They started selling them again about 4 hours ago. http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-Buy-Geek-Squad-Policies/HP...
*edit: link for free shipping: http://slickdeals.net/?&u2=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/M...
(keeping the slickdeal redirect they had since they are the source anyway)
it's still $114.74 in california after tax and 'recycling fee' --first time i've seen the last one.
Wow, even the walmart where I live, and I live in podunk, sold out at 9am
While I'm sure many of them actually are sold out (and yours might be by now), if anyone else lives near a Wal-Mart make sure to not just call but go by the store and look around. At mine, they had moved them from their original place to another display on the other side of department, and as I walked up behind a couple of employees I overheard one telling the other that they'd been telling everyone who called or ask…
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Can you share some of these? Should be interesting reading. I'm mostly seeing nerds going crazy at the cheap hackable tablet.
Check out the various threads on slickdeals.net. There are literally over a thousand pages (split among multiple threads) of people scrambling to buy these at the discounted prices. Very few of the people there are geeks, mostly just normal folks trying to jump in on what is seen as a huge value (~75% price drop over a single day). Seeing those forums will also show you why you will never be able to buy one of these…