I just tried to order, but failed. I'll try once again in the morning. Initially, the web site says the shipping is free, but later on they are charging a minimum of $21.87 as shipping and handling charges. Is this an error or are they taking shipping charges from every body?
I think the free shipping is just on the Home store. The Small Business store usually includes shipping. Anyway, I got my confirmation message from HP just a few minutes ago. It should ship sometime this week. I got free shipping and HP honored the $30 coupon, meaning I got the 32GB version and a ream of paper for just under $140 after NY sales tax.
Hopefully Box.Net will still honor the 50GB Cloud storage, but I'm not holding my breath, as it's normally $20/month. It doesn't include encryption (only the Enterprise version does - not even the business version), so if I get it, I'd probably use nowhere near 50GB of it.
MacMall just lowered their price a few minutes ago, too, but their site got hammered. I'm guessing that HP has managed to sell just about all the TouchPads produced (albeit at a loss of $200 apiece plus marketing). Too bad it's still only about a week's worth of iPad sales, otherwise there might be some incentive to write apps. It's amazing how this fire sale took on a life of its own, given how poorly it sold during 7 weeks on the market.
It's still showing 32 GB (although their ordering system is still messed up so good luck getting one). ETA: that's the small and medium business site. It hasn't been available on the home and home office site if that's where you're looking.
I ordered my 32 and 16 at 11:30 pm Central Time last night.
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Yes that's so messed up! I'm getting SQL and vbs errors. LOL
MacMall just lowered their price a few minutes ago, too, but their site got hammered. I'm guessing that HP has managed to sell just about all the TouchPads produced (albeit at a loss of $200 apiece plus marketing). Too bad it's still only about a week's worth of iPad sales, otherwise there might be some incentive to write apps. It's amazing how this fire sale took on a life of its own, given how poorly it sold during 7 weeks on the market.
Yea, I went through the sale and once I confirmed the purchase is timed out! No email yet so I'm not sure it went through....oh well.
Something is fishy. I ordered one online from Best Buy Canada at the $99 price, selected my store for pickup (delivery not available), everything went through fine, even gave my credit card info and secret password for my visa, got order number and confirmation, only to have Best Buy cancel the order about 10 minutes later.
So this is either bogus, a fishing attempt to gauge demand, or whoever said there were 250,000 Touchpads lying around is full of BS.
Not fishy at all. At $99 even I, an Apple lover, would have bought one. Wife owns our iPad2, this would at least give me something to read books. Also being a Palm lover while Palm supported their product, it fitted me. At $99 it's the best book reader out there, but too many very quickly thought the same.
Now lets see, which "not selling tablet" out there will be dumped next ?
One thing for sure - HP's precipitous withdrawal from tablets has resulted in a real "cluster flock" for retailers and advertising channels.
It's so disorganized that this morning CNN was still running an HP TouchPad commercial for the bargain price of $399.
I went over to Costco yesterday and they did not have them on display. I asked a clerk if they had any left. His reply was that they had just moved them all to the back storage and were going to send them all back to HP. He then said Costco management didn't want any part of the pending "Cluster Flock" that will come of things like mine has a scratch and I want to replace it or honoring their own 90 day warranty... etc.
I would expect a place not MacMall to not be able to handle something like this, since the normal sequence of events of a MacMall order varies from unpredictable to wrong again for the third time.
HP, OTOH, as already noted, wants to leave the hardware business and focus on software and services, and yet couldn't handle the web traffic that they *could* see coming for at least a week.
No one was prepared for it. HP's site was horrendous this weekend. I was lucky to get my order in at 1:00am on Friday night just before it went "out of stock" and before people figured out the SMB store was still working. Datavis' site went down, and they switched to eBay, where they sold 6300 in 34 minutes. A lot of retailers weren't sure whether to send their stock back to HP or launch a fire sale, and so held back stock or kept the price at the higher level until they knew for sure. It isn't every day when a major manufacturer cancels a product launch less than 2 months in and lowers the price by 75%.
If HP weren't completely changing their focus from consumer to enterprise, they'd have tried to maximize the value of WebOS a bit better by trying other methods to move the inventory. Selling everything at a $200 loss is a quick end, but isn't really compatible with a stated goal of trying to "optimize the value of WebOS software." It isn't as if developers are going to write apps for 500,000 users, of which maybe a quarter or half might actually use the devices for more than just web browsing.
It's actually an unfortunate development, IMO. WebOS didn't try to copy iOS, and had some nice features. With some decent hardware, it might have given Android a run for its money. I almost wonder whether HP wouldn't have been better off licensing it to RIM (who has struggled to gain traction with QNX), or Nokia, who really has no tablet OS now that they have dropped MeeGo and moved their attention to Windows Phone (which is not designed for tablets). As much as I like Apple, we need other companies doing something different and keeping Apple honest. The post-Jobs era is coming, and while Tim Cook is very good, the post-founder era for a wildly successful company is often the toughest. Apple has already witnessed that once before.
Not that I really wanted one but I got to Best Buy in Washington, DC at 11 AM Sunday - for other "stuff" and remembered. They told me they had 20 and they were gone within 10 minutes. I would have bought their 21st. It's really too bad for WebOS. There goes a good thing for all the worst reasons...
I would expect a place not MacMall to not be able to handle something like this, since the normal sequence of events of a MacMall order varies from unpredictable to wrong again for the third time.
HP, OTOH, as already noted, wants to leave the hardware business and focus on software and services, and yet couldn't handle the web traffic that they *could* see coming for at least a week.
Oh I get it! I was wondering whether macmall got more than they bargained for since their entire site down means no other business too! All for a clearance sale
It's actually an unfortunate development, IMO. WebOS didn't try to copy iOS, and had some nice features. With some decent hardware, it might have given Android a run for its money. I almost wonder whether HP wouldn't have been better off licensing it to RIM (who has struggled to gain traction with QNX), or Nokia, who really has no tablet OS now that they have dropped MeeGo and moved their attention to Windows Phone (which is not designed for tablets). As much as I like Apple, we need other companies doing something different and keeping Apple honest. The post-Jobs era is coming, and while Tim Cook is very good, the post-founder era for a wildly successful company is often the toughest. Apple has already witnessed that once before.
Can You imagine if that firesale makes it popular all of the sudden?
I would expect a place not MacMall to not be able to handle something like this, since the normal sequence of events of a MacMall order varies from unpredictable to wrong again for the third time.
HP, OTOH, as already noted, wants to leave the hardware business and focus on software and services, and yet couldn't handle the web traffic that they *could* see coming for at least a week.
The sad thing is that even the notifications page won't work ("server busy").
This is pretty ridiculous. There couldn't have been THAT many people- they only had a few hundred thousand and some were available last night at 11 pm when I finally got mine (although I didn't get my email notification until a few minutes ago). In fact, there were still some available this morning.
Couldn't help but notice the overWHELMINGLY positive user reviews on HP's product page (the 32 gig model has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 62 reviews). They love it like crazy. Happily replaced their iPads. Gee, you'd think this would have encouraged HP to barrel past the generally tepid critics' reviews.
Unless...no, you don't think...these couldn't be...?
Couldn't help but notice the overWHELMINGLY positive user reviews on HP's product page (the 32 gig model has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 62 reviews). They love it like crazy. Happily replaced their iPads. Gee, you'd think this would have encouraged HP to barrel past the generally tepid critics' reviews.
Unless...no, you don't think...these couldn't be...?
Yes that was all me! After about the 55th I started to repeat myself... Baby needed a new pair of shoes
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I saved $149 dollars by not buying this. This will allow me to bump up to a 64GB iPad 3 next year
I bought one for $99 that I'll sell on eBay for $200 - so I can bump up to a 64 GB iPad and save $100 doing it.
I just tried to order, but failed. I'll try once again in the morning. Initially, the web site says the shipping is free, but later on they are charging a minimum of $21.87 as shipping and handling charges. Is this an error or are they taking shipping charges from every body?
I think the free shipping is just on the Home store. The Small Business store usually includes shipping. Anyway, I got my confirmation message from HP just a few minutes ago. It should ship sometime this week. I got free shipping and HP honored the $30 coupon, meaning I got the 32GB version and a ream of paper for just under $140 after NY sales tax.
Hopefully Box.Net will still honor the 50GB Cloud storage, but I'm not holding my breath, as it's normally $20/month. It doesn't include encryption (only the Enterprise version does - not even the business version), so if I get it, I'd probably use nowhere near 50GB of it.
It's still showing 32 GB (although their ordering system is still messed up so good luck getting one). ETA: that's the small and medium business site. It hasn't been available on the home and home office site if that's where you're looking.
I ordered my 32 and 16 at 11:30 pm Central Time last night.
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Yes that's so messed up! I'm getting SQL and vbs errors. LOL
MacMall just lowered their price a few minutes ago, too, but their site got hammered. I'm guessing that HP has managed to sell just about all the TouchPads produced (albeit at a loss of $200 apiece plus marketing). Too bad it's still only about a week's worth of iPad sales, otherwise there might be some incentive to write apps. It's amazing how this fire sale took on a life of its own, given how poorly it sold during 7 weeks on the market.
Yea, I went through the sale and once I confirmed the purchase is timed out! No email yet so I'm not sure it went through....oh well.
Something is fishy. I ordered one online from Best Buy Canada at the $99 price, selected my store for pickup (delivery not available), everything went through fine, even gave my credit card info and secret password for my visa, got order number and confirmation, only to have Best Buy cancel the order about 10 minutes later.
So this is either bogus, a fishing attempt to gauge demand, or whoever said there were 250,000 Touchpads lying around is full of BS.
Not fishy at all. At $99 even I, an Apple lover, would have bought one. Wife owns our iPad2, this would at least give me something to read books. Also being a Palm lover while Palm supported their product, it fitted me. At $99 it's the best book reader out there, but too many very quickly thought the same.
Now lets see, which "not selling tablet" out there will be dumped next ?
One thing for sure - HP's precipitous withdrawal from tablets has resulted in a real "cluster flock" for retailers and advertising channels.
It's so disorganized that this morning CNN was still running an HP TouchPad commercial for the bargain price of $399.
I went over to Costco yesterday and they did not have them on display. I asked a clerk if they had any left. His reply was that they had just moved them all to the back storage and were going to send them all back to HP. He then said Costco management didn't want any part of the pending "Cluster Flock" that will come of things like mine has a scratch and I want to replace it or honoring their own 90 day warranty... etc.
Did anyone in NYC pick up the touch pad from the Stores, today?
No go.
poor bastards, they must have not seen it coming
You can't even get to their homepage
poor bastards, they must have not seen it coming
I would expect a place not MacMall to not be able to handle something like this, since the normal sequence of events of a MacMall order varies from unpredictable to wrong again for the third time.
HP, OTOH, as already noted, wants to leave the hardware business and focus on software and services, and yet couldn't handle the web traffic that they *could* see coming for at least a week.
You can't even get to their homepage
poor bastards, they must have not seen it coming
No one was prepared for it. HP's site was horrendous this weekend. I was lucky to get my order in at 1:00am on Friday night just before it went "out of stock" and before people figured out the SMB store was still working. Datavis' site went down, and they switched to eBay, where they sold 6300 in 34 minutes. A lot of retailers weren't sure whether to send their stock back to HP or launch a fire sale, and so held back stock or kept the price at the higher level until they knew for sure. It isn't every day when a major manufacturer cancels a product launch less than 2 months in and lowers the price by 75%.
If HP weren't completely changing their focus from consumer to enterprise, they'd have tried to maximize the value of WebOS a bit better by trying other methods to move the inventory. Selling everything at a $200 loss is a quick end, but isn't really compatible with a stated goal of trying to "optimize the value of WebOS software." It isn't as if developers are going to write apps for 500,000 users, of which maybe a quarter or half might actually use the devices for more than just web browsing.
It's actually an unfortunate development, IMO. WebOS didn't try to copy iOS, and had some nice features. With some decent hardware, it might have given Android a run for its money. I almost wonder whether HP wouldn't have been better off licensing it to RIM (who has struggled to gain traction with QNX), or Nokia, who really has no tablet OS now that they have dropped MeeGo and moved their attention to Windows Phone (which is not designed for tablets). As much as I like Apple, we need other companies doing something different and keeping Apple honest. The post-Jobs era is coming, and while Tim Cook is very good, the post-founder era for a wildly successful company is often the toughest. Apple has already witnessed that once before.
I would expect a place not MacMall to not be able to handle something like this, since the normal sequence of events of a MacMall order varies from unpredictable to wrong again for the third time.
HP, OTOH, as already noted, wants to leave the hardware business and focus on software and services, and yet couldn't handle the web traffic that they *could* see coming for at least a week.
Oh I get it! I was wondering whether macmall got more than they bargained for since their entire site down means no other business too! All for a clearance sale
It's actually an unfortunate development, IMO. WebOS didn't try to copy iOS, and had some nice features. With some decent hardware, it might have given Android a run for its money. I almost wonder whether HP wouldn't have been better off licensing it to RIM (who has struggled to gain traction with QNX), or Nokia, who really has no tablet OS now that they have dropped MeeGo and moved their attention to Windows Phone (which is not designed for tablets). As much as I like Apple, we need other companies doing something different and keeping Apple honest. The post-Jobs era is coming, and while Tim Cook is very good, the post-founder era for a wildly successful company is often the toughest. Apple has already witnessed that once before.
Can You imagine if that firesale makes it popular all of the sudden?
I would expect a place not MacMall to not be able to handle something like this, since the normal sequence of events of a MacMall order varies from unpredictable to wrong again for the third time.
HP, OTOH, as already noted, wants to leave the hardware business and focus on software and services, and yet couldn't handle the web traffic that they *could* see coming for at least a week.
The sad thing is that even the notifications page won't work ("server busy").
This is pretty ridiculous. There couldn't have been THAT many people- they only had a few hundred thousand and some were available last night at 11 pm when I finally got mine (although I didn't get my email notification until a few minutes ago). In fact, there were still some available this morning.
Unless...no, you don't think...these couldn't be...?
However make no mistake that HP will not be releasing further updates to it's WEB OS so at
Some point this touchpad will lose it's value and compatability. However for now $100 is good and I'm sure that you'll get your money's worth
Couldn't help but notice the overWHELMINGLY positive user reviews on HP's product page (the 32 gig model has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 62 reviews). They love it like crazy. Happily replaced their iPads. Gee, you'd think this would have encouraged HP to barrel past the generally tepid critics' reviews.
Unless...no, you don't think...these couldn't be...?
Yes that was all me! After about the 55th I started to repeat myself... Baby needed a new pair of shoes
At this price,what have I got to lose.
$ 99 or $149 depending
I'm thinking I can probably put Android on it, not because I love it but at least it's got a life-line
I wish I could put iOS but without access to the source....I'm not that good