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HP Slate leaked

So to those naysayers complaining about iPad using iPhone OS what do you have to say now? Apple was smart enough not to use OSX for iPad OS, it would've fall into the same trap, sluggish, short battery life, and no Apps.
 
tigres said:
Why can't HP design something cool? Every thing they touch (except maybe monitors) looks like hell.

I do love their business printers I.E. 5si, 8mp.

The rest... garbage.
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Because HP has always, and will always be, a printer company. They need to stop throwing away money trying to be anything else.

The one exception is the Agilent division.
 
dojoman said:
So to those naysayers complaining about iPad using iPhone OS what do you have to say now? Apple was smart enough not to use OSX for iPad OS, it would've fall into the same trap, sluggish, short battery life, and no Apps.
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HP's is a tablet/convertible netbook with the keyboard lopped off. How anyone thought an Atom running Windows 7 wouldn't be an exercise in frustration was kidding themselves.

The iPad may have some limitation imparted by the iPhone OS (though many will be solved by version 4), at least the iPad is super-responsive. I have a Windows XP netbook as well and find that almost unusable. Can't imagine trying to run Vista 2.0 on that thing.
 
It looks like it. JooJoo was the first and now Slate. We'll see how Android OS tablet will hold up against iPad.
 
Looks disappointing but it's still an early prototype so who knows. It's definitely going to be thicker being it's a full fledged netbook just with a touch screen so it will be able to do a lot of things the iPad can't. The tradeoff will be the thickness which wouldn't bother so much as long as the ui was intuitive and easy to use with the touch interface. However It looks nothing like the ui shown off in the early videos if it really is that poor I'd rather just carry around my net book for the heavier tasks and my iPad for the web browsing and forget about the slate altogether.
 
This thing is going to pose little competitive threat. It's trying to run Windows 7 on a 1.5ghz single core processor. It has a smaller screen. And it only has a 5 hour battery life. Has zero appeal to me.
 
FWW said:
Because HP has always, and will always be, a printer company. They need to stop throwing away money trying to be anything else.

The one exception is the Agilent division.
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True, only business printers though. Their consumer products suck ass too, just like their computers.

They might as well give them away, as they rape you on the ink.

Never again will I buy HP.
 
Wow! That is pure sex! Full Windows 7 OS, Flash, USB ports, HP 3rd party touch overlay, less than 2 inches thick, a powerful off the shelf netbook processor, lots of RAM, a real hard drive with way more capacity than the iPad, user swappable battery so you can carry several if you like. This is the one I've been waiting for! This is the Windows tablet that will lift Apple stock over $300.
 
FWW said:
Because HP has always, and will always be, a printer company. They need to stop throwing away money trying to be anything else.

The one exception is the Agilent division.
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Well they are the number 1 PC maker and did sell ~50 million computers last four quarters, but lets not bring facts into this. I will check out the Slate when it comes out. One preview does not kill it. We knew it wasnt going to be instant on, and what the specs are. Im interested to see chrome run on it
 
The thing I love the most is that suddenly everyone is on one side only: next the iPad.

Prototype? I read once that supposed to be released before the summer; am I wrong?

Regardless, the main flaw is also the main feature: Windows. Hardly even on a prototype case they can fix that, they have been trying since 1995!
 
I kind of wish it was good just so Apple would have some competition, which would motivate them to make the next iPad even more phenomenal. But oh well....the next gen iPad will be good regardless.
 
HP Slate: Do you want me? Feel me gently, hold me tight!
Apple iPad: Sorry you and I were never meant to be.
HP Slate: But, why?
Apple iPad: You are too fat and ugly for me.
 
I wish HP all the luck, but just like all the other slates, minus the iPad, it's doomed to fail. You can't just release a device that is as specialized as a tablet, and not have any support in the form of a highly tweaked OS and more importantly content. Windows 7 is a really good OS, but it doesn't run very well on a low powered CPU. The one thing that the iPad has going for it is speed. Sure the UI is fairly bland but it screams when you interact with it, and for a device where personal interaction is key the HP will fail. Too bad because it looks like a cool device.
 
hard-case said:
Perhaps, but if the released specs are final, I reiterate the "meh". Smaller screen size, smaller resolution, less than half the battery life, no quick boot or instant on, and having come from an actual computer tablet running Windows 7...it wasn't bad, but you could always tell exactly what it was, a mouse/pointer based interface pigeon-holed into a touchscreen interface.
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I think you meant showhorned instead of pigeonholed? But yeah...just wow. I can't believe how clueless these companies are. As someone said recently, the good things from Apple, they can't or don't copy. The things they do copy, aren't good. Now the slate's been in the works for apparently years, so maybe I shouldn't accuse them of copying, but in this case maybe I would suggest they go back to the drawing copying board and do just that. You really don't need to be a master designer to see that thing looks like ass, do you?
 
Simple Test

Power, instant on, response.. ..blah blah.

Simple test: Which tablet would Jordie LaForge look coolest with?
 
ct2k7 said:
It's a pre-production device - much like the photos of the iPhone "4G" we have seen.
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Difference being that the new iPhone prototype looks dead sexy and essentially ready for sale, and this thing looks like someone hopped in their Delorean, punched it up to 88 mph and brought this monstrosity back from the 90s.
 
i dont get how this thing is supposed to look fat. look at it in comparison to the headphone jack in it, its just the pictures are taken at retarded angles. this review did come from a guy with an iphone and macbook, from a foreign website nobody has ever heard of, so im gonna wait til engadget gets it to pass judgement. how did they even get a hands on of this thing? Its just too enticing because its a tablet, then turns into a computer with the hdmi dock and a monitor. it does so much i wish the ipad would, and is actually for productivity. the slow boot time isnt a killer for me, i can wait 30 seconds for windows to start up.
 
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