HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust?

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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Best Buy was returning TouchPads, not Slates

[WillAdams]

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