“HP has finally released its Slate tablet,” Wendy Sheehan Donnell reports for PC Magazine. “HP is marketing the Slate 500 as a business device.”
“The tablet runs Windows 7 Professional, so it’s focused more on productivity than entertainment,” Donnell reports. “HP is pushing it as, well, a blank slate for customizable business applications for various vertical markets like education, hospitality, and insurance and real estate industries.”
The slates contains a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor along with “2GB of RAM along with 64GB of solid-state storage. There’s an SD card slot on the left panel to expand that 64GB,” Donnell reports. “Smaller than the iPad (9.2 by 5.9 by 0.6 inches—HWD), the HP Slate 500 weighs the same 1.5 pounds, but feels bulkier despite its slightly more petite 8.9-inch capacitive touch screen. The 1,024-by-768-pixel display, which sometimes requires a stylus, is surrounded by a brushed-aluminum frame.”
Donnell reports, “There’s no 3G connectivity; the Slate 500 integrates 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi… Other features include two cameras—one is front-facing and captures VGA-quality video, and there’s a 3-megapixel still and video camera on the back panel… In the box, you get the very-necessary stylus (some of the elements in Windows are too small to hit accurately on the 8.9-inch screen), and a faux leather carrying case (there’s a space to store the stylus in the case, since it doesn’t slide into, or attach to the Slate itself). Also, there’s a dock/stand that props the tablet up at about a 30 degree angle, which has two more USB ports (there’s one on the tablet itself) and an HDMI-out connector… The Slate 500 retails for $799 and is available now.”
Full article, with many more photos, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Whew, we must have blacked out from laughing too hard. What happened to October 22nd-March 31st?
Come on guys……. at least it has a Ctrl-Alt-Del button on the side. You happy Mac fanboys can’t say that about the iPad
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C’mon! This is the perfect toy for Apple-hating IT drones and engineers! They’ll sell hundreds! Thousands, even! Exciting!
C’mon! This is the perfect toy for Apple-hating IT drones and engineers! They’ll sell hundreds! Thousands, even! Exciting!
Zero innovation. Brings nothing new to the table. Just get a Windows laptop.
Zero innovation. Brings nothing new to the table. Just get a Windows laptop.
Eric,
After seeing the HP Slate 500, MDN thinks they just might have woken up on April 1 (April Fools’ Day).
Eric,
After seeing the HP Slate 500, MDN thinks they just might have woken up on April 1 (April Fools’ Day).
It’s a fat, flat netbook.
It’s a fat, flat netbook.
It is obvious that they aren’t even trying. It seems to me that the purpose of this device is to please some idiot board members who demand that “We must do tablets right away!”. You want tables? Here’s a tablet! Happy?
It doesn’t look like they put much R&D into it. They likely re-arranged an existing netbook, merged the display with the body, slapped Windows 7 onto it and sent it to manufacturing. They put the price tag just so that they could recoup at least some of the money, knowing that there will be enough corporate morons who will buy this because it is HP (and they have system contract for HP machines).
This is just so they can focus on their Web OS device project, with the engineers they inherited from Palm (as long as those guys don’t jump ship, now that they’re becoming part of HP’s corporate culture).
It is obvious that they aren’t even trying. It seems to me that the purpose of this device is to please some idiot board members who demand that “We must do tablets right away!”. You want tables? Here’s a tablet! Happy?
It doesn’t look like they put much R&D into it. They likely re-arranged an existing netbook, merged the display with the body, slapped Windows 7 onto it and sent it to manufacturing. They put the price tag just so that they could recoup at least some of the money, knowing that there will be enough corporate morons who will buy this because it is HP (and they have system contract for HP machines).
This is just so they can focus on their Web OS device project, with the engineers they inherited from Palm (as long as those guys don’t jump ship, now that they’re becoming part of HP’s corporate culture).
Geez! That must have happened when nobody was at the helm. It is the kind of thing that Jobs would have eliminated when he came back to Apple.
Geez! That must have happened when nobody was at the helm. It is the kind of thing that Jobs would have eliminated when he came back to Apple.
B…b…but it has a slide out shelf with all the licensing info on it.
How cool is that!
B…b…but it has a slide out shelf with all the licensing info on it.
How cool is that!
I’m gonna make an app called “poke yer eye out” for it. Stylus required.
I’m gonna make an app called “poke yer eye out” for it. Stylus required.
These things suck.
These things suck.
I saw this garbage yesterday. I’m still laughing.
I saw this garbage yesterday. I’m still laughing.
You should read the ZDNet fvcktards pretending that this DOA POS is going to let them run Photoshop because its running “a full OS”, as if it’s Atom CPU is up to any major processing tasks just becaue Windows 7 is installed.
You should read the ZDNet fvcktards pretending that this DOA POS is going to let them run Photoshop because its running “a full OS”, as if it’s Atom CPU is up to any major processing tasks just becaue Windows 7 is installed.
From Gruber’s Daringfireball, check out the “improved” slide out licensing shelf:
http://yfrog.com/nbvxzmp
From Gruber’s Daringfireball, check out the “improved” slide out licensing shelf:
http://yfrog.com/nbvxzmp