Tablets in the $200 to $300 Range Expected This Fall
It will be a while before top of the line tablets get as cheap as they were during HP's $99 TouchPad firesale. The HP TouchPad still costs about $300 to make according to iSuppli. Apple's iPad 2 costs about $326 to make. The costs to manufacture tablets will trend downward as demand increases, but it won't happen overnight.
However, the L.A. Times is reporting that analysts are predicting some tablet prices in the $200 or $300 range this holiday season.
Amazon.com is expected to release a $250 tablet in late November. The L.A Times article also says that Lenovo is going to debut a $199 tablet at the end of September. There are also likely to be many tablet deals. Many manufactures have tablets that have not sold well during the year and they may discount them during the holidays.
