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Well... Did you get a HP Touchpad?

  • 18-09-2011 12:04pm
    #1
    Moyglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭


    So, the hype seems to have died down, somewhat.

    The great drought of the HP Touchpad is finally coming to an end.

    Days of sleepless nights, RSI fingers from all that F5ing, or were you bovvered?

    Were you one of the lucky few to get a Touchpad, or could you care less?

    If you got one, where did you get it from?

    (Poll coming shortly - watch this space!)

    Did you get a Touchpad, and if so from where? 44 votes

    NO!!!! :( :( :(
    0% 0 votes
    Yes - Harvey Norman
    61% 27 votes
    Yes - Currys/PC World
    4% 2 votes
    Yes - Carphone Warehouse
    6% 3 votes
    Yes - Amazon
    0% 0 votes
    Yes - FNAC
    0% 0 votes
    Yes - eBay
    11% 5 votes
    Yes - Adverts.ie
    2% 1 vote
    Yes - Donedeal
    2% 1 vote
    Yes - Gumtree
    0% 0 votes
    Yes - Family / Mate in America
    0% 0 votes
    Yes - Best Buy / Staples / Barnes & Noble / Some Online US Company
    0% 0 votes
    Yes - Family / Mate / OH got me one!
    2% 1 vote
    Yes - Argos
    0% 0 votes
    Eh, Ataripad?
    9% 4 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    If you mean HP TouchPad as in spare, dust gathering HP digital photo frame, then yes, I did. :pac:


  • #3
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    I have better things to spend my money on like packets of mustard


  • #4
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    No, because I already have a laptop.


  • #5
    Emiko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 449 ✭✭Emiko


    HP hasn't tasted the same since they moved production out of the UK.

    I stick with Chef these days.


  • #6
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No, I'm waiting for the Amazon tablet. Cheaper, reportedly more functions, more (also cheaper) media services, etc.

    Details: http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/amazon-tablet-rumours-what-you-need-to-know-957839
    The TechCrunch writer says that the Kindle tablet will be half the price of the entry level iPad, which puts the Kindle tablet price at £199.


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  • #7
    Naomi00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Naomi00


    Hype? :confused:

    I've never even heard of this...


  • #8
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Being surrounded by desk-tops, lap-tops and net-books, I've decided I've gone too far and will seek help from the technology addiction centre.


  • #9
    Moyglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Moyglish


    Naomi00 wrote: »
    Hype? :confused:

    I've never even heard of this...

    Feast your eyes on this;

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056362805


  • #10
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Why would I want a bigger version of a smartphone?

    I got a netbook for about the price the HP Touchpad instead, now I can type sentences with excellent accuracy and speed.

    If this was a touchpad, I'd have given up long ago. I bet your so happy I didn't get one or this post your enjoying reading so much would probably have ended by now but since I have a keyboard it hasn't and will continue going until such time as I get bored typing. Which is now.


  • #11
    Cicero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,144 ✭✭✭✭Cicero


    thebman wrote: »
    now I can type sentences with excellent accuracy and speed.

    If this was a touchpad, I'd have given up long ago. I bet your so happy I didn't get one or this post your enjoying reading so much would probably have ended by now but since I have a keyboard it hasn't and will continue going until such time as I get bored typing. Which is now.

    :D


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  • #12
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    What is this thread about ?!:confused:


  • #13
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,529 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    opinion guy wrote: »
    What is this thread about ?!:confused:

    An extremely pointless gadget designed to trick people who probably already own a smart phone and laptop out of their money.


  • #14
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    An extremely pointless gadget designed to trick people who probably already own a smart phone and laptop out of their money.

    Ok thanks for the headsup there


  • #15
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    I managed to get one :) hated tablets before I got one, but now I love it. I wasn't tricked out of money either. I won some one for all vouchers and bought myself and my bf a touchpad during the fire sale. I own both a high end smart phone and a netbook but the touchpad is far superior for so many things! I won a europa on 3 so I just top it up every month by 20 euro to get unlimited internet and use it as a portable hotspot so ive internet all the time for it as well as my netbook.


  • #16
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,679 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Got one, heard online that Harvey Norman were discounting in Australia and perhaps there would be an announcement on the Monday, so I didn't wait and after getting the mornings work done, I headed into HN at around half ten and picked one up, just like that, in Swords.
    45 mins later they were all gone.


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