If you've got your eyes on Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, you may want to hold off on your purchase until the weekend. HP is reportedly shaving $100 off the price of the 16GB TouchPad in a special deal that runs from Aug. 5 to 7.
Better yet, if you buy from HP retail partner Staples, you'll find a coupon that knocks $100 off the price of both the 16GB and 32GB versions of the webOS tablet, according to PreCentral.net.
HP.com is already offering a $50 discount on the 16GB TouchPad, but the weekend deal would bring the price of that model down to $399.99, which puts it right in the price range of Acer's Iconia Tab 500 and the Eee Pad from Asus. With Staple's coupon in hand, the 32GB TouchPad will only set you back $499.99.
The deal comes just days after HP rolled out a software update aimed at fixing some bugs, improving system performance and stability, and addressing some issues with core apps that plagued the company's first webOS-based tablet out of the gate following its July 1 release in the U.S.
But the webOS 3.0.2 release produced mixed results, according to PCMag reviewer David Pierce, who found that despite the update, apps on the TouchPad still take too long to open and flipping between landscape and portrait mode takes too much time as well.
Perhaps such ongoing issues are part of the reason HP and its partners are offering such a steep discount on the tablet, if only for a couple of days.