Fry's in Campbell CA has the 32gb for 149 plus tax (pickup only).

Just tried currys in the UK, seems that no store anywhere around London has them available for pick up.

Sam's Club has them for pickup @ some locations.

I just printed a free one day pass and will head out soon.

+1

Latest change to the site:

"Coming Soon". ^

PageMonitor just alerted me this morning when I turned my comuter on :D

Yea that is the post counts changing. In the advanced mode you can access under extentions/options/ you can select what area of the website to watch. Like for the HP site I just selected the area where the price/out of stock would appear. Not sure what section you'd select for forums...

Can't you also just subscribe to a thread and it will PM/email you when people post? :confused:

Thanks for the headsup on PageMonitor.

It should come in handy now and after the dust clears.

Was #34 at my local Best Buy (probably the one that does the most sales in Colorado) about 50 minutes before they opened. They got 135 total. Actually took them until 10am to allocate all of them.

I went to my local BB today (again), but they had none. One of the employees said they were getting a truck tomorrow morning, but he didn't know if they were getting more. I'm going to try again tomorrow. This has become a matter of honor! :)

How many have sold so far? If it's really good didn't they just become a player? Yeah, they lose a lot of money, but now they're out there. Obviously, I'm not much of a business man, but it just has me wondering.

From what I've heard, it costs HP $300/unit to manufacture, so they're taking a pretty significant loss dumping them at these prices. However, this also shows the magic number for a decent tablet -- at $99, it seems that everyone would buy one.

I agree. To me, a tablet is similar to a netbook (with less functionality, IMO). If it costs me more than a netbook to buy one, I'm not game. If it's less (and I'm still waiting on my 32GB order with HP), I'll jump in.

I'm actually taking a serious look at the Viewsonic G, if I can't snag an HP. The HP would be fun to play with, but apparently there are serious (and successful) efforts to port Android to it, with Froyo available and Honeycomb pending. As far as I'm concerned, as long as a tablet has reasonably good battery life, a nice enough screen, WiFi a back-facing camera for conferencing, and access to the Android market, it's fungible with any other tablet. Woot just had the Viewsonic G for $239 (someone posted it here, I think). Costco has a Vizio that looks similar for $289.

Best Buy was allocated 250,000. In the first six weeks, it only sold 25,000 nationwide. It took a firesale (at more than a loss of $200 per unit*) to get their inventory sold.

* - HP is taking this loss, as it's crediting back monies to BBY.

I think some Best Buys will be getting an additional shipment this week.

Inventory Tracker - 16GB

Inventory Tracker - 32GB

Basically, if it says "In Stores Only", you better be within minutes of one, or else you'll probably miss out. Granted, a little bit of small talk with the BBY employees should reveal when they get their inventory truck. Once you find out that information, be either in-store or very close to it around that time. Fortunately for the Denver area, it's around 7am on Wednesdays and Saturdays. That means the inventory tracker is updated long before the stores open.