Posted on 12/11/2011 4:35:01 PM PST by KyGeezer
If you missed out on the original HP TouchPad fire sale but still want to get in on the webOS action after HP announced its open source move, it's not too late. As originally leaked by TechCrunch, the company is putting refurbished units for sale on its eBay store this evening. Just like the first time around, the 16GB unit costs $99 while the 32GB version runs $149. HP is also offering a $79 accessory bundle which includes a case, charging dock, and Bluetooth keyboard. Customers will be limited to purchasing two each.
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I clicked on one at 6:00 strait up, and before it could load my checkout cart after they were gone.
Well anticipated sale.
It’s too bad HP dumped WebOS. It might have been a nice operating system and it might even have made HP money, if they had given it enough time.
But as a consumer who will need to get upgrades, apps, support, service... in the future??? This product is a dead end that has already run its course.
This only convinces me that there are a lot of consumers who would buy old, dry cat poops, if they were advertised as being "ON SALE!!"
Sheesh.
People will probably be Linuxing the thing.
BTW, my comment is in no way a comment on the technical worthiness of WebOS or other components of the device. Just that it has no future, whatever its original merits might have been.
First time around under their ousted Euro-CEO it went for $99 new. This time it is refurbished for $99. Usually HP refurbished items have only 90 day warranty. But look it up to be sure....just saying
The reason I wanted it was simply for Freeping watching movies in bed.
HP has picked WebOs developement back up, and made it open source ... but the installed base is so small that no hackers are going to be dreaming up viruses for it any time soon. Ergot, a 10” internet portal that is pretty virus proof. I would have paid 99 bucks for that happily.
Probably so. And that's fine. I've shoehorned Linux into and onto a lot of my old gear, with varying success and usefulness, and often just for the fun of it.
There was no future in any of those projects either. :)
HP? Gosh who uses that crap anymore. I got sick of the virus’ all the time. I got an Apple MacBook Pro and have to this day NEVER a virus of any kind and it has been 2 years. Never again buying a cheap computer. Not that I have anything against you guys wasting your money.
It may not be upgradeable, but it doesn’t need to be if you buy it, load it up with useful programs and just use it.
My mom’s computer is over ten years old and she still uses it. It’s not connected to the internet and she just uses the word processor on it and that’s it.
But it works.
And I think you meant "ergo", not "ergot", unless you were speaking of your frame of mind at the time. :)
My comment reflected my belief that the tablet market is so new and volatile, that the HP tab will be almost unuseable in two years because the other tab-relevant technologies will change around it in that time, leaving it in a time-warp without content to play.
I could be wrong.... it's happened before. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4S_lLIDXKc
Here is another ergot artifact for your wintertime snowflake fascinations. Righteous in my book
The latest plan is to open source WebOS.
Like, wow, man. Thanks for the hit. :)
It’s possible that a specialty branch of Linux could spring up around such early hardware, giving it power to deal with content it wasn’t targeted for. Maybe even Linux based virtualizers underneath which one could run vanilla varieties of Windows.
Saw a National Geographic short the other day about a fellow who takes home grown trippy mushrooms every two months to “head off” (no pun intended?) killer migraines. The short didn’t say what the trips are like, but they must bother him less than the migraines do.
It's possible; anything's possible given enough hobbyists who are interested in it. There will be some; enough? I can't say.
It's an ARM processor, not x86, so Windows won't run on it, other than the much-anticipated Windows8. I don't think a software x86 emulator would do much in the available storage space, and it would be sloooooow. An exercise for the interested hacker, certainly, but how useful....
I can't throw stones, because I spent many years doing exactly that kind of jerry-rigging and hacking as a hobbyist. But that was between 1975 and 1985, mostly, a whole different ballpark.
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