[Info-vax] up-and-coming 35th anniversary of VMS / OpenVMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

(snip, I wrote)
>> News (NPR) this morning is that HP reduced the price of the
>> tablet to $99 to clear them out.  They sold so well that they
>> will now produce more to sell at that price.

> "Industry sources" (e.g. iSuppli, the folks who strip things to see
> how much the bits cost) seem to think that there's a substantial loss
> being made on the Touchpads at the prices they've sold at this week
> (component cost ~$300, they say in [1]). Making more to sell at a loss
> would be at least as sensible as most recent HP decisions.

Not knowing how large scale production actually works, they
might have already bought enough parts for another batch.
As it often isn't easy to resell batches of electronic components,
maybe it isn't so bad.  Is the $300 quantity one parts?  Maybe
much less in large quantities.

-- glen