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Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 10:47 PM UTC

chollida1 wrote: post #40

glhaynes wrote: post #35

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There are some very nice feeling styluses (and some that aren't nice feeling at all, too) that work on iPad - this one from Griffin is by far my favorite from the ones I've tried. http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/stylus

I didn't know this, thank you:) The use case my wife has is she wants to mark math homework, similarly to how you would mark it on paper, ie arbitrary pen input anywhere. Does the iPad allow for this? or is there any app that does this?

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Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by glhaynes » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 10:47 PM UTC

chollida1 wrote: post #40

glhaynes wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are some very nice feeling styluses (and some that aren't nice feeling at all, too) that work on iPad - this one from Griffin is by far my favorite from the ones I've tried. http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/stylus

I didn't know this, thank you:) The use case my wife has is she wants to mark math homework, similarly to how you would mark it on paper, ie arbitrary pen input anywhere. Does the iPad allow for this? or is there any app that does this?

What format would the homework documents be in? I know I've seen several apps that let you annotate PDFs with "ink", but I haven't personally used any.

Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by pyeek » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 5:45 AM UTC

I don't understand why it is priced so high. If you look at a similarly spec'd netbook for $400-$500, plus a touch screen (say +$100), you should still be under $799. Does Windows 7 really cost that much more? What on earth makes it that much more expensive when it doesn't even have 3G?

Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by babeKnuth » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 10:12 PM UTC

endtime wrote: post #38

babeKnuth wrote: post #33

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Right. So you just reinforced the original comment's point. You don't want one because it's too expensive.

Well, I was responding to this part: "Who wants Windows 7 on a tablet?"

ok, sorry. i misinterpreted it as "who wants win7 on a tab for $800?"