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Originally Posted by wheelybird View Post
I tried to buy one, but as other people have mentioned on the web, their servers can't cope. (Seeing as HP is staying in the server/software business, that doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their products).

I'm a bit miffed with this - I quite fancied one before all the price reduction nonsense. Now I probably won't get one because of all the ebay traders snapping them up to resell them on ebay for profit.

Incidentally, the TouchPad has also been cut to a silly price. I don't mind buying one for ~£100. Again I couldn't get one because the second it was announced, all the online stores were swamped with orders - several retailers have had very slow sites or their sites down for most of the day with people trying to buy one.

Where do these people hear about this? I was one of the relatively few people in the world interested in webOS, and after the HP announcement I kept my eye open for price reduction, but was beaten to it by people who'd probably never heard of webOS products before.

*sigh*
I feel the same... probably most of them went to short-time profit hunters, and a quite large chuck to technically non-interested persons...