US retailers are starting to offer $200 price cuts on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Or rather, the base price of the 7 inch tablet has fallen from $499 to $399, and companies are offering $100 rebates as well, bringing the total price of a 16GB tablet to $299. A 32GB model now runs $399 after rebate, while the top of the…

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Last night HP marked down the price of an HP TouchPad tablet to $99 for the 16GB model and $149 for the 32GB model. In Canada, Best Buy, FutureShop, and The Source all followed suit and many bricks and mortar stores sold out nearly instantly. It turns out in the US it’s even tougher to find a cheap HP TouchPad…

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Research in Motion hasn’t yet announced the pricing for the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, but the folks at CrackBerry have gotten their hands on an image suggesting that Office Depot will offer the tablet for $499.99. That’s the price for a WiFi-only PlayBook with 16GB of storage. Sprint is also expected to offer a 4G capable version of the PlayBook,…

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It looks like the Gateway mini-laptop which we first spotted last month is available in the US after all. An Engadget reader snapped a few photos of the little guy hanging out at an Office Depot, where it’s selling for about $380. I can’t find any mention of the Gateway LT1004U or any other gateway netbook on the Office Depot…

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