HP TouchPad suck

[Demolition Man]

I feel bad for everyone who is dealing with the mindless hunters. Along with the fact they just go from store to store not realzing 200 other people already did the same thing.

Its no different then when the Wii was hotly in demand or whatever "gotta get it for my kids or they'll hate me" toy during the holidays for that matter. People act like they are the first to ask even if you have already answered it for 199 other people. And of course that leads to the typical questions:

"Do you know when you'll get more?"
"Can I get on a list?"
"Can you call me when more come?"
"Do other stores have any?"
"Can you special order me one?"

All of which especially with hot products usually lead to "no sorry."

[underemployeed]

I have been doing sub contract work inside some wonderful locations that a few were smart enough to put up signs saying WE DO NOT HAVE ANY TOUCHPADS, Along with answering the phone about being out of the touchpad. Then I was at a store that got a surprise shipment about 150 people in line for 40some units that at least 12 employees got first dibs on, haha I should have seen if they could have held one for me. although really, even if they port android to it i have no use. I feel bad for everyone who is dealing with the mindless hunters. Along with the fact they just go from store to store not realzing 200 other people already did the same thing.

[Fire_on_High]

Geek King...mine's about 3 years old, was gotten as a gift, and after the (recalled) video card got sorted, it's a friggin tank. I've been extremely pleasantly surprised.

[Demolition Man]

Something tells me these are going to those who ordered from HP.

[Amadan]

Looks like there might be a few more coming soon,

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/369604/h...n-of-touchpads

Good luck.

[Demolition Man]

I had a feeling as soon as I saw HP trying to brand their own tablet operating system that the Touchpad was going to fail. The last thing that's needed is yet another tablet OS to just add more confusion out there. Personally I was giving the Touchpad until after the holiday season before HP would pull the plug on it. Looks like my prediction happened much sooner.

Also to whomever posted a bit ago about the Touchpad being useless in Canada the Touchpad will work off of any Wifi connection. Regardless... yeah good luck getting one now unless if you want to pay the "eBay Tax" as I called it during the debacle known as the Nintendo Wii Hunt.

[dendawg]

Not really damning, but a big hint something wasn't up to par with those PCs.

Big surprise there, (sarcasm) as HP basically shut down their own factories and are now basically rebadged Compaqs.

[Geek King]

I hate to hear that. I like HP computers. I have three of them, two desktops and a laptop. Now I'll have to find another company that makes reliable computers, or go back to making my own. I hope HP keeps making printers and scanners.

I'm not so sure about the reliable bit. My workplace has a slew of HPs. The older ones are still chugging along, but the 25 I loaded up as my first bit of work here are all having Issues. For instance, only about a half dozen still have working CD/DVD drives. All died with the same symptoms: Drive light stays on, will not access disks.

Not really damning, but a big hint something wasn't up to par with those PCs.

[DeltaSierra]

Alas, I was out of town camping so I didn't hear about the deal until too late. I'd have loved to have gotten one.

[Ironclad Alibi]

HP's bowing out of the PC business ...

I hate to hear that. I like HP computers. I have three of them, two desktops and a laptop. Now I'll have to find another company that makes reliable computers, or go back to making my own. I hope HP keeps making printers and scanners.

[truthless86]

What I found somewhat humorous on this was the timing of everything. It was only about 3 weeks ago at my store, we had our area HP guy in the store, making sure we had our display units up and running, and giving us the whole shpeal about why these HP touchpads are so great. Guess HP kept news on everything on a "need to know" basis until the very end, or I'm sure the rep wouldn't have bothered taking an hour with half of my department to fill us in on everything their "awesome" machines could do.

[Enjis]

My hubby wanted to get one because it can be used as an e-book reader...and is cheaper than the other book readers on the market. Sadly, we did not get one, tho he haunted all the sites that normally would carry them.
He certainly wouldn't get sucky when a salesperson told him they were out...he'd just move on to another site...

[Andara Bledin]

HP's bowing out of the PC business, though they're reporting that they'll make more Touchpads available. Likely to clear out their stock on components and recoup what they can before the division gets bought up by some other corporation.

^-.-^

[Teskeria]

Ahh! That explains yesterday's Full Frontal Nerdity strip.

[the_std]

We've been dealing with it as well, and I shouldn't be surprised. People will always buy something that is a "good deal", even though the Touchpads are near to useless in Canada. HP doesn't distribute its smartphones in Canada, therefore no tethering, therefore no access to the majority of the advanced apps and features that make the Touchpad anywhere close to worth... Anything. Yet we were bombarded with calls and walk-ins, as well as the prerequisite pushy people who come out of the woodwork when things are cheap. Luckily, they're all gone now and we won't have to deal with them anymore, but really, it was just a stupid situation all around. I say, boo to you, HP. Boo to you.