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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. Need to be in the tablet business by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    After being introduced in September, HP's new CEO Meg Whitman announced Oct. 27 that the company 'needs to be in the tablet business.'

    Maybe they should buy WebOS - I heard that the company that owns it wants to get out of the tablet business.

  2. 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

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    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
  3. crosses fingers by argStyopa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ....for the next HP sell-off, after which someone jailbreaks the product and makes it actually useful.

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    -Styopa
  4. Re:outdated? by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it'll run windows 8...

    Exactly. Not even released yet and it's already outdated.

    Very cautious about Windows on a tablet. When XP for tablets came out it was extremely clunky and far to large for the humble resources of a device loaded with low power chips and a slow (by desktop standards) HDD. Perhaps the greatest reason tablets didn't catch on until iPad.

    As Win 8 is probably still going to be a Be-All, Do-All OS and crammed with everything, including the kitchen sink, it'll probably not compare to iPad or Android. But that's my speculation.

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