HP TouchPad Returns to Best Buy

Hewlett Packard's webOS-based TouchPad tablet is back out from the dead over again and hitting Unsurpassed Bribe store shelves this hebdomad. Starting Tues happening BestBuy.com you can find out the 32GB version of the TouchPad for $150 with the purchase of a new HP or Compaq Microcomputer. Alternatively, you canful get a line the webOS tablet alone for $600. The tablet bequeath make up available at Best Buy retail locations protrusive Friday. You can find oneself complete inside information on Best Buy's TouchPad deal page.

HP netbooks answer not look to qualify for the TouchPad offer; you can find Best Buy's name of qualifying PCs here.

Best Buy's crest HP Microcomputer bargain is a Compaq desktop data processor for $300 with 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 1.65 GHz AMD E processor, six USB 2.0 ports, and Windows Home 7 Premium (64-bit). Add to that the $150 toll tag for the TouchPad and you end high with a dull towboa PC and a webOS-based tablet with almost no future for about $450. That's $50 to a lesser extent than the $500 16GB iPad 2, a tablet that most certainly has a future and a massive catalog of third-company apps.

Best Buy says the TouchPads are in limited supply and will atomic number 4 sold-out on a first-come, first-service basis. "And when they're gone, they're gone," the retailer warns on its FAQ page. HP recently announced on a company blog that its online inventory of TouchPad devices was depleted. That substance Top Grease one's palms's current deal may be the ultimate major gross revenue push for HP's doomed tablet.

Wherefore?

Considering that HP discontinued the TouchPad in August and reports say H.P.'s webOS development team English hawthorn soon be shut dejected, it would live surprising if Best Buy can sell its entire TouchPad inventory. So keep your eye on the big box retail merchant in caseful IT offers the TouchPad at fire cut-rate sale prices once again –$150 with zero strings related sounds about right.

Just don't imagine you'll be able to get away with purchasing a sleazy PC and then return it without the TouchPad to get a $150 deal happening the device. Best Buy says it will charge you some other $450 for the TouchPad if you wear't devolve the tablet with your new PC.

webOS Future Unclear

HP in August aforementioned it planned to "discontinue operations for webOS devices" and was considering acquiring out of the PC manufacturing commercial enterprise entirely. Shortly thereafter, HP sparked a comprehensive fire sale at elephantine box retailers after offer the 16GB TouchPad for $99 on HP.com.

In unpunctual October, HP said information technology would non spin off its PC business organisatio, but has yet to decide the lot of its webOS commercial enterprise. "We'Re going to make a conclusion about the long-term future of webOS within HP over the next couple of months," chief executive Million Whitman said at the time. Whitman in September replaced Leo Apotheker As CEO following reports that HP's board was growing discontented with Apotheker's plans to tailspin off the company's PC operations.

Whitman's comments may sound like there is some trust that webOS could be resurrected at HP, merely the newly minted Chief operating officer was referring specifically to the future of webOS software, not hardware. Buyers looking to draw a TouchPad this week would be wise to bear HP will not relaunch its webOS devices.

Only a TouchPad could come handy for technical school saavy users looking to smatter with many respectable tablet hardware. Hackers are working on a way to port Android to TouchPad hardware, and Liliputing explains how you can put Ubuntu Linux on the TouchPad. Finally, HP is reportedly testing out Windows 8 on TouchPad devices, but it's not clear if HP and Microsoft would make it easy for current TouchPad owners to loading the upcoming OS on their tablets.

HP's 32GB TouchPad features a 9.7-inch concealment, dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 1.3 megapixel webcam, 1 USB 2.0 port, 32 Gigabyte storage, Wi-Fi connectivity and webOS 3.0 software system.

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