October 21, 2010 at 10:36 pm
After many leaks, the HP Slate is official. It’s a Windows 7 tablet PC with an Intel Atom CPU clocked at 1.86 GHz, 2GB of RAM, 64GB SSD, and has Broadcom’s Crystal HD accelerator for enhanced HD video playback. The 8.9 inch touch screen has a resolution of 1024×768 with Wacom digitizer. On top of the touch screen, there’s a front facing VGA camera and a 3 megapixel camera on the back. This whole package will cost you $800 and it’s available soon.
Do you think the HP Slate 500 will succeed? Is it worth $800? Leave your answer in the comments.
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I doubt it'll be as successful as the iPad, but it's definitely a more powerful device and a more feasible laptop replacement. The Wacom-compatible screen will be quite useful for graphic designers.@Scotty It doesn't run a mobile platform (i.e. iOS or Android), rather it runs a desktop platform (Windows 7). This gives it much of the functionality of a desktop PC (versus an oversized smartphone).Nothing wrong with either -- it depends on what you need the device for. Thus, it's hard to compare the iPad to the HP Slate.
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LikeI doubt it'll be as successful as the iPad, but it's definitely a more powerful device and a more feasible laptop replacement. The Wacom-compatible screen will be quite useful for graphic designers.
@Scotty It doesn't run a mobile platform (i.e. iOS or Android), rather it runs a desktop platform (Windows 7). This gives it much of the functionality of a desktop PC (versus an oversized smartphone).
Nothing wrong with either -- it depends on what you need the device for. Thus, it's hard to compare the iPad to the HP Slate.
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LikeNookin, you know my stance on Windows 7 and Tablets, it just shouldn't happen. I look at it like this, I have used RDP to remote my Desktop running windows 7, and let me tell you Windows 7 was in NO way built for touch. Especially when it was built around an environment that includes mice and keyboards. Android, well when Google says it doesn't work on tablets, that should be a given! I Have to give props to companies like RIM for creating device specific OS for their BlackPad, yet even there it could use some improvements. When you get an iPad you don't need a Core 2 Duo or an Intel i5 because the OS was built for the hardware. Yet when you start trowing in that randomization of what machine is my OS going on it starts to make things slow and unoptimized. Putting aside all my Apple Fanboy-ism I think what Apple does with their OS and Devices should be set as a standard.
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LikeI meant that the HP Slate and iPad are different CLASSES of devices. The HP Slate is more powerful but not as intuitive/sexy/emotionally appealing as the iPad. That's what I meant by "desktop platform".Remember the "Tablet PC" from, hmm, 2004-05? Those were basically laptops with no keyboards and a touchscreen. The HP Slate is an expansion of that class of device. The iPad is somewhere between that and a smartphone, with the smartphone-esque simplicity but a bigger screen.Windows 7 does include touch support including multitouch. (Ever used an HP TouchSmart or something?) RDP does not support any form of touch input though.
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LikeI meant that the HP Slate and iPad are different CLASSES of devices. The HP Slate is more powerful but not as intuitive/sexy/emotionally appealing as the iPad. That's what I meant by "desktop platform".
Remember the "Tablet PC" from, hmm, 2004-05? Those were basically laptops with no keyboards and a touchscreen. The HP Slate is an expansion of that class of device. The iPad is somewhere between that and a smartphone, with the smartphone-esque simplicity but a bigger screen.
Windows 7 does include touch support including multitouch. (Ever used an HP TouchSmart or something?) RDP does not support any form of touch input though.
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LikeI have used an HP TouchSmart various times, one of my closest friends has one, I fond it useless for more than "for fun". What I am trying to say is that you shouldn't;t put a desktop/laptop/smartphone OS on a tablet it is a TOTALLY different type of platform to build for, so it should have its own OS, like a PlayBook or an iPad!
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LikeThat price is sure a slap in the face especially for something that runs off a mobile platform. However, I do like the specs and the design. Let's see where this thing goes...
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