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Here's one of their promo videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX-B2wG1e4&feature=playe...
Fantastic. A touch-screen with small buttons, stock Windows 7. Ships with IE8. $200-$300 more than an iPad: you could buy a netbook and an iPad for the same price. WTF? Total shit. Who wants Windows 7 on a tablet?
From the promo videos it seems that this device is targeting vertical markets.
Here's one of their promo videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX-B2wG1e4&feature=playe...
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That video makes it look even worse. Don't they realize that people can type faster than they can write with a pen? It took that guy a long time to pull out the pen, write "Rear Light" and put the pen back. Should have been <2 seconds with a touch keyboard.
It's just so weird! It's like they are advertising to an alternate universe where the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch don't exist. I can't believe how slow and laggy it looks in their own video . How can they not see this?
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That video makes it look even worse. Don't they realize that people can type faster than they can write with a pen? It took that guy a long time to pull out the pen, write "Rear Light" and put the pen back. Should have been <2 seconds with a touch keyboard.
Evidently you've never tried to write something like "Rear Light" one-handed on the iPad keyboard. Or, you don't have ogre fingers like I do. More seriously, the pen is pretty fantastic for things like reviewing papers. Having used tablet PCs for years and now having used an iPad for a while, I can say it takes significantly longer to annotate PDFs via iAnnotate or goodreader and either my finger or the iPad keyboard…
Not that this matters a whole lot - just adding my own data points to the discussion. :)
EDIT: I figured I should add that I have looked at the large touchscreen PCs as sold in Best Buy, etc. and while the concept looks very intriguing, playing around with them for even a few minutes shows why they would be frustrating in practice.
The UI requires too much precision - for instance, to close an application you have to stab precisely on the X in the upper right corner - there should be a modification that is either more forgiving or the X should be larger, etc.
Further, higher resolution (which should be nicer) is just as bad if not worse - as the need for precision increases.
Lastly, the focus by the big manufacturers still seems to be "stack em deep and sell em cheap" - leaving little $$$ or motivation to improve the UI to a level as good as an iPad.
I think that NotionInk.com is on to something, though when shipping product will arrive, I don't know.
- Uncompetitive price.
- No 3G.
- Odd quilted effect on rear. Nobody's going to buy it because of that, and it will only look tacky in the long run.
- Distracting HP logo at the edge of the screen, looks bad when held vertically.
From the video linked to by BigZaphod, a lot of it is a guy working on a spreadsheet or presentation everywhere he goes. It's not exactly an inspiring scenario - there have even been cases of people choosing holiday locations for their lack of BlackBerry reception.
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyers_wrestle_with_...
Fantastic. A touch-screen with small buttons, stock Windows 7. Ships with IE8. $200-$300 more than an iPad: you could buy a netbook and an iPad for the same price. WTF? Total shit. Who wants Windows 7 on a tablet?
If HP wants to beat the iPad – that’s how Ballmer framed it, HP doesn’t seem to see it that way – this is an unmitigated disaster. The HP Slate has potential to be a nice niche product, not to beat the iPad. Or, to put it in another way, the iPad and iPad-class devices have a shot at changing the future of computing, this has not.
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That video makes it look even worse. Don't they realize that people can type faster than they can write with a pen? It took that guy a long time to pull out the pen, write "Rear Light" and put the pen back. Should have been <2 seconds with a touch keyboard.
Evidently you've never tried to write something like "Rear Light" one-handed on the iPad keyboard. Or, you don't have ogre fingers like I do. More seriously, the pen is pretty fantastic for things like reviewing papers. Having used tablet PCs for years and now having used an iPad for a while, I can say it takes significantly longer to annotate PDFs via iAnnotate or goodreader and either my finger or the iPad keyboard…