HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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?

Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by angstrom » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 2:24 PM UTC

One thing going for it: They almost resisted putting intel/windows stickers all over it. http://goo.gl/vXKi

Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by cryptoz » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 2:24 PM UTC

BigZaphod wrote: post #3

Here's one of their promo videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX-B2wG1e4&feature=playe...

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.

Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by kyleslattery » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 2:28 PM UTC

You gotta love the slide out licensing tab: http://www.engadget.com/photos/hp-slate-hands-on/#3494156

Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by BigZaphod » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 2:31 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #6

BigZaphod wrote: post #3

Here's one of their promo videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX-B2wG1e4&feature=playe...

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?

Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by larsberg » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 2:35 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #6

BigZaphod wrote: post #3

Here's one of their promo videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX-B2wG1e4&feature=playe...

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 than it did with Acrobat and the pen+tablet pc input panel.

Re: HP Slate Officially Launches for $799

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Post by endtime » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 2:36 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #4

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?

Actually, I kind of do, but not for $800. Not everyone likes the constraints of iOS, you know.