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You can't even get to their homepage poor bastards, they must have not seen it coming
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Quote: Originally Posted by KPOM 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…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta 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 …
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I wonder how well the first gen LTE will work in terms of battery life and price. I for one am perfectly content with 3G for now at least for the phone. I get 3.5 Meg's down and 1 up and have an unlimited plan. Plenty for what I do with the phon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody I think you are the one with the wishful thinking here. A lot of this sounds like dreaming to me. You talk about Linux desktops but Linux is already dead in the water and makes up only the tiniest f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ihxo I idea of "post-PC" is not there will be no PC, but PC will no longer be the center of computing like it used it. Nailed it! VDI or equivalent will be the corporate desktop. The rest will be mobile thin cli…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mario What tablets can't do: they don't have large screen and never will. Hence the need to be able to send signal wirelessly to external display and to intelligently find and pair with available one around it. Key…
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Quote: Originally Posted by poke You give some good examples. I don't think people realise how much the workplace has had to adjust to the PC. When people say "can you imagine people being hunched over an iPad in the office?" I think they must be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Yeah, I wish I had bought a couple of extras. Just went to HP's site. It's STILL not operating properly. They are showing 32 GB Touchpads as still being available, though. Really? I haven't seen it ava…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NeoTheta Makes one wonder about the long term career prospects for waiters and waitresses -- guess someone still has to bring the food to the table... The iPad is being used in ways that surprise and astonish, and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta The main page also says that the Touchpad has free shipping. I saved a PDF of it. Sorry, but those are silly rationalizations. People are jabbering about things they have no concept of. NONE. They're no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KPOM Try this link to sign up for an e-mail notification. http://h41112.www4.hp.com/promo/webo...ilability.html . Thank you so much! I just signed up. Some eBay models are going for $300 already which is kind…
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Quote: Originally Posted by a_greer The Apple fanboys here and at sites like this one all seem to miss the fact that the iPad is just a toy when talking about teh post PC era...sure, it kicks the PCs ass when playing angery birds and watching rer…
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BUT it's more wishful thinking than anything else corporate desktops as we know them, will soon be a thing of the past. We are virtualizing all of our desktops. Sure we need a desktop license still but as people use the desktop less, shared desk…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KPOM Now HP's website has a "notify me when product available again" button, so I'm guessing that they are waiting for the big shipments of returns to arrive from Best Buy, etc. Really? All I see is "Please check …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta I finally got mine ordered (a 32 and a 16). It does turn out that it works far better when ordering through an iOS device than a PC or Mac, but it still took hours. Unfortunately, it did not give me free s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta What in the world does that have to do with anything? With even a modicum of intelligence, people would realize that they're talking out of their nether regions about things they don't understand. A reasona…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit What??!! There are people on here that know what's going on??!! Har! My magic iBall says " don't count on it"
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Sorry, but I happen to believe that people should keep their mouths shut when they don't know anything about a topic. Not only does it confuse innocent people who are smart enough to keep their mouths shut, bu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 They've been pulled in Australia. The HP site links to a retailer (with exclusive rights to sell) who has a "page not found" error Nice! They were in such a rush they didn't even bother to put a "dear John…