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HP is now fresh out of the 16GB model of its recently discontinued TouchPad.
If you are looking into getting HP TouchPad at a steeply discounted price, check your local stores early in the morning. Office Depot is reportedly shipping all of its remaining HP TouchPad stock to their stores on Monday August 22nd, 2011. A few Staples stores in Southern California are reportedly to have limited quantities of HP TouchPad.
Thanks to the super slowness of HP server, I apparently ordered 3 HP TouchPads. Well, in retrospect the total order equals the price of one HP TouchPad prior to August 19th. Let’s see if HP would fulfill the order.
UPDATE:
HP Site is still slow riddled with errors. No wonder, it is running on IIS.
Sadly I was spending most of Saturday hunting for the freshly discontinued product known as HP TouchPad. Nothing at Best Buy as the salesperson said that they are sending all the unsold inventory back to HP. Office Depot only had a few units in the morning and all sold out as the remaining stock will be delivered to the store on Monday morning.
As predicted, HP’s own online store is experiencing a meltdown. I tried placing an order only to see script errors as far as the shipping address confirmation.
I bet a lot of people wanting to get a $99 tablet computing device. That seems to be the pricing that makes people want one. Unfortunately manufacturers would have to eat up the cost.
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editor’s note:
There is no such thing as “Red HP TouchPad”, it is a play on “The Hunt of Red October”.
UPDATE:
Good Luck!
So it begins, retailers are clearing out HP TouchPad inventory. The 16GB WiFi version is priced as low as $99.
Check back for the links:
Office Depot
16GB model – $129.99
32GB model – $149.99
Best Buy Canada
16GB model – $99
HP TouchPad, we hardly knew Ye!
I have the feeling that webOS team were just as surprised as many of us when HP announced the exit out of webOS hardware. “The next chapter for webOS” post (and email to webOS developers) seem to back up my assertion.
As many of you are aware, we are currently scheduled to hold many developer events around the world. We are planning to continue with these events, however, due to the recent announcements; the nature of them will change. These updates will be posted on our events registration site this coming week. We are eager to present to you the updated strategy for webOS and to hear your feedback.
It seems to be the case of decisions made on the management level without any inputs from webOS team.
In addition to that, AppleInsider and Electronista noted that resellers begun clearing out HP TouchPad priced as low as $99 and $149 for 16GB and 32GB model respectively.
Microsoft is now actively pursuing published webOS developers to Windows Phone 7 platform.
Another big news came out this week. HP to put its webOS hardware on hold and plans to spin off its PC business.
From webOS Developer Forums:
folks, I know it’s tough, but try to relax a bit. I’m working to get you as much information as I can as fast as I can. All I can say right now is that is that I don’t see this as bad for webOS.
Would HP strike deals with hardware manufacturers to license webOS?
The TouchPad, HP’s first webOS tablet ales figure is disappointing. Best Buy is reportedly only sold 25,000 units out of the 250,000 units shipped to the big box retailer.
HP is also looking into spinning off its PC business. Apparently high sales number doesn’t really translate into high profit.
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I for one was looking into getting HP Pre3, unfortunately HP is getting out of the mobile hardware business before it’s actually released in the United States. HP Pre3 is now available in Europe right before HP announced its discontinuation.
I wonder what the future be like for HP and webOS.
OK, I promise this would be the last of the OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive trilogy post. It arrived sometimes this afternoon while I was still at the office.
Recap:
I ordered OS X Lion Thumb Drive a little bit after midnight Tuesday August 16th, 2011. I received the shipping notification in the afternoon. It arrived within a day.
Now, where did I keep the MacBook Air Software Installation USB Thumb Drive? It looks exactly the same.
UPDATE:
Found the MacBook Air Software Reinstall USB Drive
