Articles about hp slate

After writing at the beginning of the year some articles about the HP Slate, the Windows 7 tablet that was supposed to compete with the iPad, all we got was silence. Till today that is, when HP announced officially the HP Slate 500, an 8.9 inch tablet that differs slightly from what we were presented earlier as it targets the enterprise market, adding some extra features to make it a business tablet.Being a business tablet doesn't mean you won't be able to get one from HP, as they'll list it...

Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has  build  in the last 10 years, users say that and sales numbers say that, but that doesn't mean you can throw Windows 7 on any gadget you like. The latest gadget to prove that is the HP Slate, which was caught on video by an Youtube user who posted the hands on preview for the world to see. Some say it's a fake, but I have to admit that that looks awfully like a Windows 7 Atom powered netbook, which is slow, very slow.The hardware seems pretty solid, w...

After days and days of talking about HP Slate we finally have something official from HP, and it's not what you think as HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley said during a conference that HP sees the Slate as a tablet for the Enterprise market, which it will encounter it sometime this Autumn. WebOS, the operating system inherited from Palm will be used by HP to build consumer tablets. At least that's the plan for now. So it seems that the other Business tablet, Cisco Cius, has now a serious...

After a lot of rumors and official/semiofficial and cancellation news, the HP Slate seems to live on and even made an appearance on a HP webpage, where is listed as Slate 500. It's surprising for HP to have made a mistake and publish those pages before official launch, but it seems that HP Slate 500 is alive and kicking, with the specs we were suggested a while ago: 1.6 GHz Atom CPU, 8.9 inch screen and Windows 7 Home Premium OS.What we didn't see coming are the two video cameras (front and ...

One sad day for all you touch tablet fans: Microsoft killed the Courier dual screen tablet concept and HP did the same with its Slate project. It's like the two talked between each other and reached the same conclusion, that the two projects are not worth pursuing anymore. It's a sad day because Courier was really an interesting concept that might have had an actual use and would have propelled Microsoft as a company that can think outside the box for one instance, if they want to. I guess corpo...

HP Slate is one of the devices many await for, in hope that it will outperform iPad in sales, celebrity and user respect (that one might not be true) as it was announced somewhat at the same time with the iPad, in a classic Mac vs Windows duel. As expected the two different ideologies meet also here, with the iPad being light, fast and features a great design while the HP Slate is heavier and slower ('thanks' to the Atom netbook CPU) and is not really a design marvel.A few moments ago a Span...

We've talked a few times about the HP Slate tablet, presented by Steve Ballmer during CES 2010, which is supposed to be a direct competitor to the Apple iPad slate tablet. A lot of rumors have appeared during past months about this mysterious product, but not much more than that.Today it's time to take a first look at the specs and see also at a short video with the main features, which by the way, seems a direct hit on the iPad's lack of USB port, webcam/digital camera and memory card expan...

As expected, because the iPad is not compatible with Flash, Adobe turned its attention on adversaries, in this case the Windows 7 platform for tablets and has put up an interesting video explaining how Adobe AIR and Flash will be part of the multimedia and browsing experience you would encounter on a Windows based tablet. Almost all info on this demo video highlights the advantages of using technologies already popular and says nothing about iPad, but we all know that's what they're aiming at. I...

We've first mentioned the HP slate tablet PC at the beginning of this year, during CES, when it was first announced by Microsoft. Since then we've only heard rumors that it'll be available this year, that it will be expensive, but nothing for sure. Today things are getting more clear as a Spanish tech website found out that the starting price of the HP Slate will be 400 EUR in Europe, which amounts to around 550 $, but officially we can even see lower pricing as we all know the vast majority of ...

Remember the big announcement HP and Microsoft made at CES 2010? I don't really, because it's not a big announcement, they've just said something about a slate type tablet running Windows 7 and that's pretty much it: no price or specs were disclosed, besides the fact that it will be affordable. Even if this practice seems idiotic I assure you HP knew what they were doing: expecting the iPad announcement to see the price needed to be set in order to stimulate sales.Now that we know iPad sells...