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Chayton
08-20-2011, 04:54 PM
For those of you who havent heard, HP has slashed their touchpad from $400 to $99. They have been selling like crazy today, Called my local walmart and they said I was the 100th person to call, and no, they dont have anymore. Jumped on ebay and snagged one RIGHT before they went out of stock. I plan On selling it for a $100-200 dollars more to go towards my Marauder fund :cool: Anybody else get one, or maybe you want one? :D

F8LBITEva
08-22-2011, 08:01 PM
I got one Saturday morning! I love this thing, for surfing,facebook, and YouTube you can't beat it for $100. They are going to be back in stock pretty soon. A lot of businesses(like Best Buy) sent all their stock back to HP for fear of getting stuck with them. I'm getting a couple more for Christmas gifts

Rocknthehawk
08-22-2011, 08:27 PM
I got one...order processing on a second.

dohc324ci
08-22-2011, 09:55 PM
Looking to get one or two....can't beat it fir the price!

FreddieH
08-23-2011, 12:01 AM
Can't seem to be able to find any. If any one can get 2 at the 99.99 dollar price ill buy from you.

guspech750
08-23-2011, 04:12 AM
I would like to buy one off some if you have one to sell.


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fastblackmerc
08-23-2011, 08:45 AM
Just remember guys...... you may be buying a "dead end device"

"The TouchPad is a fine device. The platform is more consumer friendly and operational in a tablet than Android right now and it has the pleasing user experience of webOS. We have never had any issues with webOS. We just couldn’t recommend it over the iPad. John’s official review of the TouchPad states, “WebOS and the Palm TouchPad are nearly perfect, an excellent amalgamation of everything that was ever right about Palm. But is even perfection, in this market, enough? Without a strong app base and some work on performance issues, the TouchPad may be the most beautiful dead-end we have seen yet.” Yep, that properly describes the TouchPad: a beautiful dead-end."

"In March 2011, HP announced plans for a version of webOS by the end of 2011 to run within the Microsoft Windows operating system,[7] and to be installed on all HP desktop and notebook computers in 2012.[8] However, on August 18, 2011, HP announced that it would discontinue production of all webOS devices."

fastblackmerc
08-24-2011, 07:51 AM
Good info on why the HP Touchpad failed....

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Hewlett-Packard/Why-HPs-TouchPad-Tablet-Strategy-Failed-742211/?kc=CITCIEMNL08242011STR1