sorry b, going to have to disagree. daewoos are pos, made from pos, so even if you clearanced a pos, it's still a pos.
however, as i mentioned, the BOMs on these things are at least $300, so for every one HP sales, it loses at least $200. thats not including research, marketing, etc... and these things arent chinatown and fall apart tablets, but relative high quality ones that match all the high end tablets.
-dual-core cortex a8 @ 1.2ghz (easily clocked to 1.5gh which is the rated speed)
-1GB RAM
-16GB/32GB NAND storage
-9.7" capacitive touch screen
-IPS LCD panels with LED backlights
-Adreno 220 GPU
those specs are pretty much the top of the line. the other $400-500 tablets will have exact configs except maybe different flavors of the Cortex A9 eg (Tegra Nvidia 2, Samsung, Apple A5).
true, the a9 with its out-of-order execution and better alogarithms yield an extra 20% cpu performance, the qualcomm S3s make up with 20% more speed, so they pretty much come out even. lastly, with the adreno 220, its the best performing gpu in its class, slightly ahead of the PowerVRGX540 in the iPad2 and the like.
the major downfall is the death of webOS, but there is currently a $2500 (and growing) prize for whoever can port andriod 2.3 onto it, so people are scrambling and there has been varying level of successes.
lastly, one of the best futures for devs and hackers is that you can create a 2GB bootable partition that can help you recover from any bricks, in essence, its really really really hard to FUBAR it.
i only suggest getting any tablet as a toy or as a tertiary machine. its neat to play with and convenient, but the reality is, its a blown up smart phone and cant even match the computing experience a craptastic netbook offers.
to say its like buying a daewoo, is wrong. id akin it to buying a clearanced corvette if GM wasnt salvaged by the taxpayers.
ps hp officials said itll be on their websites, but its up to individual retailers to continue the $99 price, which hp will honor on their site. eta is a few weeks; id chance it and say around or near october when the holiday sales take off.