[lbo-talk] TouchPad

[Mike Beggs]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Are these things any good?
>
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/08/hp-touchpad-mania-touchpads-selling-out-in-us-at-99.html
>
> Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad is finally enjoying a sales boom. All it took to
> move the previously slow-selling tablet was a $99 price point.

What happened, by the way? These things were only just released here,
like a week ago, and there are still billboards all over the train
system advertising them for $600 or so, but they were marked down to
$99 and have all sold out.

Mike