Aug. 19th, 2011

thewayne: (Default)
I really don't know what to make of this. They buy Compaq, who had bought DEC, they buy 3Com, they buy Palm, the sell off the test instrumentation division which was the core of HP, and now they're dumping the PC line. They apparently have decided that the Palm/WebOS direction was a total waste of time and they're abandoning it, so you might be able to find some really deals on HP tablets very soon, if you're willing to risk buying an orphan.

One thing that I'm unclear about is whether or not they're going to sell off their printer line. I think that would be almost suicidal considering the huge profits they make on ink refills.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/hp-webos-tablet-touchpad/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576516403053718850.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/1948232/HP-Spinning-Off-WebOS-and-Exiting-Hardware-Business

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