December 17, 2010
The status update email I got from HP three weeks ago said that if they hadn't shipped my Slate 500 by December 27, they would cancel my order. Ten days and counting, and I no longer have any hope that they'll ship before that deadline.
The order status page continues to be a sick joke, saying each day that delivery is scheduled for that day, and shipment for two days previously. I have received no further communications, and any kind of news about it all is not to be found, at least by me.
So at this point the only real question is whether they really do cancel my order, or make it so I have a choice of doing so. If they do cancel, it leaves me to either give up, or to order again and go to the back of the shipment queue.
Merry Christmas to me, from the bastards at HP.
UPDATE: I reread their email and it said:
If we do not hear from you and we have not shipped the specified products prior to 12/27/2010, your order will be cancelled with a full refund.
So I responded to it and told them I didn't want my order being cancelled. I wonder if that will make any difference.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Computers at
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Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at December 17, 2010 03:59 PM (9KseV)
Maybe I'll consider that, if HP does fall through. I took a look at the specs for the Viliv, and it doesn't look as good (e.g. only half as much RAM, an HD instead of an SSD, WinXP instead of Win7, not as good of a touch panel). But it's not completely out of the playing field, and a computer you can get is better than one you cannot no matter the price or the features.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 17, 2010 04:36 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: BigD at December 18, 2010 12:42 PM (LjWr8)
It's said that one of the mantras of the X-Windows project was, "The hardware will catch up." (They weren't wrong, either.)
Microsoft has been working on various approaches to tablet computers for more than ten years. There's nothing new about this. The reason the Slate is possible, for example, is all the support that's in Win7 (and earlier versions of Windows) for tablet computers.
And there was the entire Windows Compact Edition effort. (Did that just die, or did it evolve into WinPhone?)
It may, however, have been the case that what Microsoft was doing was too advanced for the hardware of the time, and now the hardware has caught up.
Not that this means Microsoft was wasting time and money. If they hadn't done all that work, the hardware may not have appeared at all.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 18, 2010 02:28 PM (+rSRq)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at December 18, 2010 03:21 PM (a8YWB)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 18, 2010 04:14 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at December 18, 2010 05:31 PM (9KseV)
Anybody remember when, back in the good ol' days when Bill Gates was accused of everything (including causing sunspots), he made the claim that no company had ever stayed on top of an industry through two major shifts in that industry, and that his (horrible, evil!) efforts were just *trying* to become the first? Looks a tad prescient now, doesn't it?
I kinda hope that, when all of this is done, somebody writes an updated history of the industry akin to the old "Triumph of the Nerds" documentary. I fear that any such effort would be hard-pressed to remain unbiased, however.
Posted by: BigD at December 18, 2010 05:41 PM (LjWr8)
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