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HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust?

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-you-want-it-this-time? dept.

First time accepted submitter redletterdave writes "After being introduced in September, HP's new CEO Meg Whitman announced Oct. 27 that the company 'needs to be in the tablet business.' However, by creating a lackluster product in the Slate 2 that runs on a soon-to-be-outdated operating system, HP will surely find itself back where it started, when furious Best Buy executives demanded HP to take back their thousands of unsold tablets piling up in storage."

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  1. Best Buy was returning TouchPads, not Slates by WillAdams · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently the Slate has been selling pretty steadily since its announcement --- mostly to business, but Amazon is listing just 4 in stock at the moment.

    More positive and informative article here:

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-33200_3-57317842-290/surprise-hps-slate-pc-is-a-success/

    There aren't that many competitors in the Windows Tablet PC slate-format since Fujitsu quit. I really wish HP would revive the form-factor of the critically-acclaimed Compaq TC-1x00 though:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Compaq_TC1100

    which truly offered the best of all possible worlds.

    William

    --
    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
  2. Re:Bust by 0123456 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows 8 will run everything Windows 7 and before would run.

    No it won't. An ARM tablet won't run anything from Windows 7 other than the few .Net applications which don't call native code other than that provided by Microsoft.

    And any of those applications which do run will leave you with a WIMP interface on a crappy touchscreen. Microsoft have been pushing that for at least a decade and it's been a dismal failure.

    So again, what does a Windows 8 tablet offer that an iPad or an Android tablet don't?

  3. Re:Loss Leaders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's been shown in Apples own quarterly reports that they are NOT losing money on iPad sales. They are making a very nice profit.