Ordered an HP TouchPad!

**Rob** · 07-11-2011, 05:15 PM

I ordered a 32GB HP TouchPad on Sunday. It should arrive someday this week. I got it for $549.99, free shipping and no tax. Pretty sweet. Not to mention since I still have (and use) an old Palm Pre I can get the "early adopter" $50 rebate from HP. So, that's a 32GB TouchPad for the price of a 16GB.

I also ordered the TouchPad touchstone, the official HP case, and a Phantom Skinz screen protector. I'm going all-out on this little device! I use a touchstone all the time with my Pre and my wife's Pixi. We love it and we certainly wanted it for our TouchPad as well.

We tried out the TouchPad at the local Office Depot and Best Buy on Saturday. We really liked it a lot. It runs webOS 3.0 which is quite an improvement from webOS 1.4.5 that we run on our phones. We're really looking forward to this arriving in the mail. I'll let you all know how it goes.

**Dragon** · 07-12-2011, 01:40 AM

A pad? Should have gotten at least a Laptop, as they have a bit more flexibility on what can be done. But look forward to your thoughts either way.

**Rob** · 07-12-2011, 03:52 PM

Why would I want another laptop? I don't need two.

**Dragon** · 07-12-2011, 08:42 PM

I did not know you already had one. But currently tablets are way over priced for what can be done with them.

**Blacksmith1** · 07-14-2011, 11:46 AM

so was every other new tech. a good 286 system was several thousand dollars new....

**Dragon** · 07-14-2011, 08:24 PM

Tablets are trying to replace netbooks, as they truly cannot compete with a full fledged Laptop in capabilities. Now since they are aimed at Netbooks, one would think they should be about the same price as a netbook, ie 300 USD or there abouts. But for 600+USD come on, I mean my rinky dinky Laptop at 670 will terrorize a tablet anyday of the week. But i guess people will buy anything, I mean they buy 3 or more Xboxes after getting banned countless times for modding it, or because they fried it and got the red rings of death.