Tag: TouchPad

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”.

• The Hunt for Red October novel by Tom Clancy – Wikipedia | Amazon
• The Hunt for Red October movie – Wikipedia | Amazon