trekkie wrote:
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Hewlett Packard is so in love with the idea of losing money by selling its HP TouchPad tablet at $99 that it’s putting the thing back into production. Actually the company appears to be in trouble with contracted component suppliers, who were burned when Hewlett Packard pulled the plug on the TouchPad after less than two months on the market. After a fire sale designed to burn off unsellable inventory resulted in a flurry of geek headlines and a resulting minor run on the remaining inventory, HP is capitalizing on the publicity by sending a few more TouchPad units to market. You still shouldn’t buy one unless you know what you’re getting yourself into. At ninety-nine dollars, the HP TouchPad sells for about one-fifth of the Apple iPad 2, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and other rivals. But unlike those products, the TouchPad is DOA. Beyond the current overtime run which should get the company out of the crosshairs of component suppliers who are sitting on parts they’re probably forcing HP to pay for at this point, this is a discontinued product. That means no support beyond what HP is legally required to give you. The TouchPad’s operating system webOS, despite a few token gestures on the part of HP aimed at creating the illusion that it’ll live on, has been shelved. That means no software updates from HP, not for new features, not for security reasons. No new versions of built-in apps like the web browser. And the handful of third party app developers who did join the TouchPad party are already on their way out of town. That means no App Store, like iPad users have access to. Still, there are a few isolated instances in which the $99 TouchPad is simply too good of a deal to pass up…
more touchpads coming out
Let's hope I can get one this time...Oh random comment: My friend sat on his hp laptop and bent the screen really badly needless to say the screen doesn't work anymore.
