HP Slate dead in the water...

[Wayne]

PC World has an article on the fate of the HP Slate tablet.

An early review of an HP Slate prototype revealed what many already suspected—the Slate is more like a slow, handicapped PC forced into a flat-panel form factor than a tablet device. Essentially, it is in fact a touchscreen netbook without a keyboard.

iPad Killer? We can't even get an iPad challenger
http://www.macworld.com/article/150963/ ... slate.html

 

[minator]

The EEE Pad is due in a couple of months, that should be interesting.
It'll probably have all the missing bits and a lot faster processor. As to if the GUI is any good is another question altogether.

Rather more disturbing is what information is Android feeding to Google.

 

[Glaucus]

Can't say I care much. I still don't get the idea of a computing device sans keyboard. I don't think tablets are for me.

Having said that, Android tablets will probably enter the market eventually. At that point Apple may have something to worry about as the openness of Android is likely to give it a major advantage over the closed iPad. Plus, they're likely to think up a way better name for it. I kinda liked "Slate". Oh well.

 

[faethor]

Touchscreens are the future. Looks as if HP has acquired, still pending final approve, Palm. I suspect them to focus on WebOS devices.

Looking back at other tech companies purchased by HP they haven't promoted the new business. Compaq is a 'brand'. DEC and the Alpha is dead, as HP decided to use Itanium and sell off pieces of Alpha to Intel. I don't have much hope for Palm, which is nearly dead aleady.

Though doesn't Palm own BeOS?

Ordered a touchscreen laptop. No need for the Slate.

 

[Glaucus]

Ordered a touchscreen laptop. No need for the Slate.

I was thinking the same thing. Mouse and keyboard are good enough for most things, but for things like Google Earth, a touch screen would be nice.

 

[faethor]

Asustek recently announced an Atom based Win7 Tablet. It'll be shown at Comdex later this year.

Panasonic Toughbook Tablet w/ Win 7.

 

[faethor]

HP announced the touchscreen Pavillion DV6. It's a touchscreen notebook. Lowest cost is the AMD model for a list of $530. Intel version is $650. One can spend more.

Sure it's not a tablet. But, for geeks having a keyboard is a must.

 

[Glaucus]

Panasonic Toughbook Tablet w/ Win 7.

Our company recently looked into those for use as hand held bingo devices at halls. They're pretty neat, very durable. Had fun throwing it and stuff. But due to cost we ended up building our own touch screen tablets:

Running Windows CE on some kind of ARM chip.