{"id":1423,"date":"2011-09-20T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2011-09-20T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:31:43","slug":"hp-touchpad-1-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/hp-touchpad-1-month\/","title":{"rendered":"HP Touchpad &#8211; 1 Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HP-TouchPad-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1424\" title=\"HP-TouchPad-005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HP-TouchPad-005-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HP-TouchPad-005-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HP-TouchPad-005.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>About a month ago, I was one of the lucky ones to pick up a $99 HP Touchpad. \u00a0I wrote before that I dodged a bullet not buying it earlier. \u00a0Why did I go ahead and buy it? \u00a0For $99, let me just tell you that it was well worth the price. \u00a0If I had to choose between a $99 Touchpad and a $499 iPad 2, I would definitely go with the $99 Touchpad. \u00a0Yes, the iPad has more apps and yes the hardware is amazing on the iPad, but as far as overall value, you can&#8217;t be the $99 price point. \u00a0Your mileage may vary but for my own use, I mainly use it for surfing the web and playing the occasional casual game for killing time. \u00a0Even though I love WebOS, I may wait for the Android port to be fully baked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I was one of the lucky ones to pick up a $99 HP Touchpad. \u00a0I wrote before that I dodged a bullet not buying it earlier. \u00a0Why did I go ahead and buy it? \u00a0For $99, let me just tell you that it was well worth the price. \u00a0If I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}