December 02, 2010

Slate 500 -- shipping begins?

It looks like HP has finally started shipping the Slate 500.

HP's "order status" web page continues to be utterly useless, incrementing the "delivery" date field by one day per elapsed day, so that it always shows today's date.

My order was #998. I wonder when they'll get to me? I wonder if I'll be given any warning before it arrives? At the rate things have been going, I won't be the least bit surprised if UPS shows up with it unexpectedly.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Computers at 10:06 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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1 Ironically, since they only made 1500 initially (or whatever the number you talked about a while back) and the order numbers started at -1000, you will not get one.

Posted by: RickC at December 02, 2010 12:57 PM (0YJFN)

2 I heard every maker of semi-decent tablets is having the same issue this season. Viliv and Archos both hit production vs demand issues and didn't stockpile enough. In UK some other company only had 500 of them made, all ordered within 2 hours after store open. Although I expected HP to do better. I mean who the heck is Archos, right? And HP is HP.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at December 02, 2010 01:14 PM (9KseV)

3

The rumor was that they made 5000 and had 9000 orders. If (and this is a big "if") all the people before me ordered one apiece, then I should be comfortably within the "ship now" band.

This whole thing seems like a huge marketing failure. It's almost as if HP didn't really want to sell these.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 02, 2010 01:44 PM (+rSRq)

4 "The rumor was that they made 5000 and had 9000 orders."

Well, it was just a bad joke anyway, but if you like, pretend that I wrote that the order numbering starts at -4003.

Posted by: RickC at December 02, 2010 02:08 PM (0YJFN)

5 BTW, I know this is off-topic, so feel free to delete it if you don't want to answer, but why don't you have next/previous navigation on individual blog posts?

Posted by: RickC at December 02, 2010 02:10 PM (0YJFN)

6 Not supported by the system here. (Or at least it wasn't when I first began this and grabbed all the system formatting files.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 02, 2010 08:34 PM (+rSRq)

7 The rumored 9000 was early in November. I wonder how many orders they got later?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 02, 2010 08:35 PM (+rSRq)

8 I just remembered who managed to run out of inventory in 2 hours: CTL, selling 2go Pad. I learned about it because Seattle Avionics selected CTL as the recommended platform in the slate form-factor. I wonder what kind of research they did, if any. Certainly not a research of CTL's ability to deliver the systems.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at December 02, 2010 09:42 PM (9KseV)

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