HP Touchpad Thread (NO Discussion Of Personal Buying/Selling)

cisk wrote: »

Today will officially be known as F5 day. :pac:

Number of Hits HPShop got Friday: 4

Number of Hits HPShop got Today: 40000

YuM wrote: »

I could do with a €99 Pre 3 to go with my new Touchpad, I'm getting greedy now

It's odd how they didn't reduce the Pre 2/Pre 3 prices.

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

I'd be careful using the word troll my friend, all I am doing is pointing out this insane desire for something just because its cheap.
100 euro is still a lot of money in my book to throw at something and find it useless or not suited to what you wanted it to do after a month or so.
No harm in that is there?

The thing is that the hardware on the product is fairly good. For €100 9.7" tablet with dual core there are a lot of things that you could do with it. Personally, I'm going to use it as a desktop media player, plugged into better speakers. I can watch a movie/whatever or listen to music and have my laptop screen free for working on.

I could also mod it to use the tablet as a peripheral device for my laptop, like a drawing pad or something. I'll find uses for it, getting one is the important bit right now.

somakasvh wrote: »

Anyone who got a 32GB want to swap for a 16GB + cash?

Ill hit you back if I get a 32 in PC World in the morning.

i just want a frikken touchpad already!

Dman001 wrote: »

It's odd how they didn't reduce the Pre 2/Pre 3 prices.

Pre 3 is €79 and Veer is €59 on German HP site.

joe316 wrote: »

Really in two minds about this, fab bargain but for someone with an ipad 2 is it really worth it.

no.
Neither if u have a decent large screen smartphone

joe316 wrote: »

Really in two minds about this, fab bargain but for someone with an ipad 2 is it really worth it.

Not really, unless you really need Flash Support. But in fairness, most of the good Flash based sites have Apps for the iPad now or now support HTML5.

iknorr wrote: »

no.
Neither if u have a decent large screen smartphone

have an iphone 4, take the ipad with me on business trips and its a god send. Touchpad could be handy for herself on skype though.

celj wrote: »

Do Tesco sell them??

Do in england anyway
http://direct.tesco.com/q/N.2000419$3999291/Nr.99.aspx?Ns=P_HIDDEN_Stock_Available|1||P_SORT_Price&btnResultSort.x=43&btnResultSort.y=11

Dont recall ever seeing them sell touchpads here, maybe dundrum?

superflyninja wrote: »

so is there anybody gonna queue at currys/pc world tomorrow?

Me deffo!!!!!!!!!!! "Working from Home" is great

Alan_Madden wrote: »

Ill hit you back if I get a 32 in PC World in the morning.

The need to open it is going to take over in the next hour or two!

From what I can tell, the support skype video out of the box. Can anyone confirm?

If so I'd consider getting one for my dad.

We've establish that Harvey Norman have some(correct?) but does anyone else in Ireland have them at the cheap prices?

Still holding out for an online retailer myself. At least we have the luck that we have some retailers are acknowledging the price drop - according to a lot of what I've been reading that's not happening in the UK.