it's still $99 for a product that sucks compared to other tablets.

would you buy crap flavored water if it was on sale for 10 cents/bottle?

 

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I'd like to hear what it sucks so bad compared to?

Performance on the HP Touchpad is great, if you know about this.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/how-to-improve-the-performance-of-your-new-hp-touchpad/3866

Once they get Android working on it, it will be a hell of a deal.

 

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I'm actually pretty surprised at how nice the tablet is.

The hardware is better than I thought, the 10 inch IPS screen is beautiful.
The Beats audio speakers sound great. Probably the best tablet speakers I've heard.
Tablet feels really comfortable in my hand.

Multitasking is really nice on the OS.
It started out slow, some people said it speeds up after using it a couple days, but the performance tweaks linked earlier help too.

Really the only big fault this tablet has is a lack of apps. And that is a really really big problem of course that lead to it's demise. Just hard to get developers to make apps for too many different platforms at once.

But for $99. This thing is absolutely a steal as you can still do quite a few things with it.
* Web browser
* Email
* E-reader
* Streaming music
* Watching copied MP4 videos/movies
And I'm sure people can find a few more things.

There are big gaps in the app store. But this thing is freaking cheaper than a Kindle. I feel bad for anyone that hasn't been able to get one of these yet. It's a steal. There is rumors that HP still has a lot more to sell though. So hopefully people will get more chances that want one.

After playing with this tablet though, I'm thinking HP gave up too early. I really hope they can get some third party hardware manufacture to pick up WebOS and hopefully help keep the third party development activity moving. Though I guess that probably won't happen. It's a shame.

sounds like someone pissed they spent 700 bucks on an ipad lol

 

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By the way, that Qualcomm 1.2 GHz processor in this tablet is better at playing back HD video than the Tegra 2 sadly found in most Android Honeycomb tablets.

I just copied over some 1080p videos downloaded from YouTube that would stutter on Tegra 2 Honeycomb tablets (I tried Xoom, Transformer, Galaxy Tab, all the same), they play back flawlessly with the TouchPad.

Ubuntu and Honeycomb apparently.

http://www.grabi.org/2011/08/23/install-ubuntu-linux-on-hp-touchpad-tablet-how-to-guide/
http://www.grabi.org/2011/08/23/touchdroid-project-aims-port-android-to-the-99-hp-touchpad/

 

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Kinda funny they are selling successfully for $300 each on eBay.

http://completed.shop.ebay.com/i.html?rt=nc&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=touchpad&_fln=1&_trksid3286.c0.m283

 

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My order from onsale got canceled. I'm pissed is there any recourse for them "overselling" that sounds like crap to me.

Not sure if it was OnSale or someone else. But there was a lot of complaining about someone canceling a lot of orders and it turned out the company had absolutely no connection between it's warehouse inventory and it's order taking system. So they sold WAY more than they really had.