Re:HP begins TouchPad clearance with $99 fire sale
by ja27 on Saturday August 20, 2011 @08:19AM
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Arrg. I don't want one of these. I don't. I've mocked this tablet for two months. I'd rather keep my $99-$149 and apply it towards another iPad or the ASUS Eee Transformer.
But it's only $99. Wifi, IPS display, an OS that isn't completely horrible? I would be too ashamed to use it at work unless I disguised it as a photo frame. But the kids would love it.
Re:HP begins TouchPad clearance with $99 fire sale
by runjake on Saturday August 20, 2011 @10:23AM
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Supposedly, some Cyanogenmod guys are buying TouchPads to see if they can put Android on them. I'm unsure of the feasibility of this as I don't know much about the hardware and bootloader situation on the TPs.
Re:HP begins TouchPad clearance with $99 fire sale
by dangrossman on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:20AM
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Compared to what else you can buy for $50 (not a single comparably sized tablet I know of), you still wouldn't find it worthwhile? It's fair to compare it to an iPad 2 at its original price, but at $99 that's not what it has to beat.
Re:HP begins TouchPad clearance with $99 fire sale
by SoftwareMaven on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:31AM
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Using it for nothing more than a digital frame and movie player would cover the $99 price.
Re:HP begins TouchPad clearance with $99 fire sale
by runjake on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:43AM
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No, but I can see why others would find it valuable at $50 or even $150. For me, it was just really bad. I was hoping WebOS would be my true alternative to iOS, but it just didn't make it there.
Great dev tools, though.
I don't find most of the UI beautiful or elegant, most of it was too dark and reminded me of those first ugly mobile Linux GUIs , some of WebOS is quite well-designed, pretty, and usable, though.
The big issue for me is how long it took to load things, be they apps, websites, or search results. Whereas, the iPad 2 does everything just about instantaneously, it was a 3 second wait for anything to happen on the TouchPads. Those 3 second lags really add up on annoyance after a little while.
I wanted to believe, but in the end, it seems I was right.