HP Kills Off Its Windows 7 Version of HP Slate
First the Courier, now the HP Slate.
This week, Microsoft disappointed gadget enthusiasts by scrapping plans for its dual-screen Courier tablet. Today, word on the street is that the Hewlett Packard's Windows 7 tablet, the HP Slate, has also been scrapped.
It was announced by Steve Ballmer on day zero of CES and it was one of the bigger announcements of the show. When the whole world was buzzing about Apple's upcoming tablet event, HP rolled in and stole the show with its own Windows 7 tablet. There was little information available about the Slate at CES but over time, teaser clips and videos explaining how the device came to be hit the Web.
Back in March, the HP Slate got spec'ed and priced at €400. Rumored to boast Intel's Atom processor, USB connectivity, a memory card reader, a rear-mounted integrated webcam, Windows 7 and a Flash support, the device was said to be hitting shelves in June. Now, it looks like HP is killing the project completely.
TechCrunch cites a source who has been briefed on the matter who says the company is scrapping the tablet because it's not happy with Windows 7 as an operating system. It's impossible to ignore that kind of rumor a couple of days after HP acquired a mobile OS of its own (Palm's WebOS). There are also rumors that HP will ditch the Atom CPU in favor of something a little less power-hungry.
The Windows 7 version of the HP Slate was not the only tablet HP had in the works. The company planned to release the same tablet but with Google's Android OS on it instead. So far, it looks like that device is still safe.
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I think netbooks and small laptops are what people want to carry around rather than slates and tablets.
Possible and most probabale reason is the good old qwerty keyboard!
Mobile phones seem to be going the same way with more and more now offering that feature in their products.
A tablet with a slide out qwerty may be the next best thing but then you are returning back to a laptop in a way so what's the point?
Slide out or folding, no difference really.
O' I forgot to add, a tablet's screen is vunerable to damage unless kept in a hard case, whereas a laptop/netbook is folded and thus the screen is protected and safe.
Atom isn't powerful enough to drive Windows 7 as well as HP would like. CULV it instead - cheap SU2300 would do the trick surely?
O' I forgot to add, a tablet's screen is vunerable to damage unless kept in a hard case, whereas a laptop/netbook is folded and thus the screen is protected and safe.
Uh cases/bags?
Seems funny that everything people liked about what the slate offered they are taking out. Personally i like the idea of it running windows 7 for compatibility and the idea i could use existing USB devices such as my internet dongle to connect to the net on the move and not have to wait for a 3G version like the IPAD. Seems to me HP just made a bad decision because i knew loads of people waiting for this product to be released instead of buying the IPAD.
As far as the Palm WebOS i would prefer to have the OS on the IPAD because the palm WebOS is going to have just as many incompatabilities with existing web technology if not more than the IPAD.
Bad decision.