So, HP has Killed their new Touchpad and is discounting the 16 GB to $99 and the 32 GB to $149.
I wonder what OS can be hacked onto it?
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
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DCJensen - Aug 20, 2011 6:58:52 am PDT #17576 of 25512
All is well that ends in pizza.
Typo Boy - Aug 20, 2011 11:22:10 am PDT #17577 of 25512
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Centurylink has moved from offering only a 1.6 MPS speed in my area to offer a 6-7 mps speed in my area (7 nominal, as low as 6 in practice.) That is more than fast enough for email, telephone over the net, and non-video pages (I think). True? But if I want to watch youtube, or want to disconnect my cable and start doing TV and movies over the internet with netflix and hulu and such, I suspect it will be a bit slow with skips and pauses . True?
Zenkitty - Aug 20, 2011 11:37:13 am PDT #17578 of 25512
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
DCJ, I'm on HP's website right now trying to buy a TouchPad, and their site is slow as molasses and keeps telling me there's no memory. They must be getting hammered.
Typo, I tried CenturyLink's internet and found it was noticeably slower than my Comcast connection. FWIW
Rob - Aug 20, 2011 12:03:32 pm PDT #17579 of 25512
It would be very easy to run Android on it. Both are based on Linux and the Linux bits are open source.
I am very sad about the death of webOS.
Amy - Aug 20, 2011 12:18:34 pm PDT #17580 of 25512
Because books.
So if you buy one of those, you have to put an OS on it?
Rob - Aug 20, 2011 1:54:13 pm PDT #17581 of 25512
It comes with an os, webOS [link] , but it's not an OS that's ever likely to have many apps.
Zenkitty - Aug 20, 2011 1:57:31 pm PDT #17582 of 25512
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
There's talk that some magic-wielding folk are creating an Android Honeycomb for use on it.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2011 1:58:50 pm PDT #17583 of 25512
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought HP was stopping the HW, not the software, And that they were going to try and get someone else to pick up the hardware slack.
Amy - Aug 20, 2011 2:16:42 pm PDT #17584 of 25512
Because books.
Thanks, Rob.
I don't even have an iPhone, or an Android, so I'm pretty clueless about apps anyway.
Sue - Aug 20, 2011 2:35:48 pm PDT #17585 of 25512
hip deep in pie