Snappy? You mean having to wait for an app to open on the Touchpad? When on an iPad, the app instantly opens up?
This is how I look at it...considering I'm not even sure I'll use a tablet, $99 is cheap enough for me to give it a shot.
Now $500-600 (new iPad2 territory)? Pfft. I'd buy an Alienware netbook for a little more and have a lot more functionality.
Having bought Palm not long ago to now essentially shut it down seems pretty dumb. How much shareholder value has been sliced off HPQ?The prices in that article are wrong.
right now prices for the processor are $11 not $20. The screens are $29 not $68 , flash is $11 not $23. Looks like the prices they quoted were 1K units and HP isn't buying in that small amounts.
I added up before deciding on whether to buy one and came up with 16GB cost of $89 and 32GB cost of $128. Hp isn't dumb and didn't just pick those prices out of thin air. They know what their cost was and selling at less than cost would be actionable by stockholders when they had no reason to other than changing company focus.
The bottom is getting ready to fall out on the tablet market and HP knew it. There are two processors in product development now , one from broadcom and another from sigma designs that are going to make the $99 tablet a common item. With those chips all they have to do is add a screen and battery , everything else is in the SOC.
I see woot has the viewsonic tablets for $239. Figure in the profit woot has to make then the profit viewsonic has to make and you can see why Hp selling their tablets for $99 isn't a big loss.
"There is so much event logging in the background that it seriously impacts the TouchPads performance, as it is constantly doing things it doesnt need to do. The setting you just changed reduces the amount of logging that is going on."
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/how-to-improve-the-performance-of-your-new-hp-touchpad/3866?
my friend and i are going to try this side by side tomorrow hopefully.
I'm not sure what you talking about? Are you implying an iPad could never be sluggish? If so lols I want what you're smoking. Also if you talking about having to touch the app to full screen it I don't see the issue.
You drunk or stupid this morning?
Is Apple still selling iPads, Powerbooks and Mac Airs like hot cakes. Yes.
:thumbsup:All the bickering!
It's easy:
iPad if you have a tendency to float out of open windows
Android if you are practical and don't buy into that posuer BS
And you'll get this POS because it's so cheap otherwise you wouldn't bother buying a tablet because you see no practicality in a Tablet for $500 other than being a posuer
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The bottom is getting ready to fall out on the tablet market and HP knew it. There are two processors in product development now , one from broadcom and another from sigma designs that are going to make the $99 tablet a common item. With those chips all they have to do is add a screen and battery , everything else is in the SOC.
I see woot has the viewsonic tablets for $239. Figure in the profit woot has to make then the profit viewsonic has to make and you can see why Hp selling their tablets for $99 isn't a big loss.
The viewsonic tablet is a POS. I tried one and it sucks. I'm no fan of WebOS, but I would have paid $400 for an HP Touchpad over the $239 of the Viewsonic tablet. The Viewsonic tablet is chunky, the screen sucks and it stock ROM sucks major donkey ass.
They could've probably dumped their entire inventory to outfits like Woot and other liquidation house for more money than their fire sale price. Is this a big FU to Apple and Google from HP? I gotta believe it's going to be hard even for Apple to sell $500 iPads when the consumer has been reprogrammed with lower pricing.
What if this was some crazy plot by HP to get the Touchpad into the hands of consumers? Later this week, HP might announce that they are NOT exiting the market after all. :sneaky:
Considering picking this up... can this do all the e-reader formats for books? Also PDF? Also, how is it as a web browser and picture viewer?
Thanks!
This is how I look at it...considering I'm not even sure I'll use a tablet, $99 is cheap enough for me to give it a shot.
Now $500-600 (new iPad2 territory)? Pfft. I'd buy an Alienware netbook for a little more and have a lot more functionality.