

HP Slate
First Courier, now HP's Slate as well?







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get ready for a generic apple clone
By invidious on 4/30/2010 9:14:13 AM , Rating: 3
HP should not be trying to beat Apple at their own game. They should be trying to make a pad device that is better at the things that iPad is bad at.

I don't think the 10 hour figure is really all that important anyway. Sure more is better, but I would never use the iPad for 10 hours straight. I would definitely trade a few hours of battery life for stronger performance or more features. If battery life was their major reasoning for turning away from win7 then they are morons, 5+ hours is perfectly fine if it means supporting a higher res screen and 720p video playback.

By robinthakur on 4/30/2010 11:05:01 AM , Rating: 1
Why would you want 720p playback on a tablet device? Presumably to output it to a tv or something? Watching it on a 10" screen seems pointless at best given that in tv terms you need at least 40" to see a massive difference between that and a decent SD picture...Ditto with the higher res screen, that would just make all the icons much smaller and harder to use wouldn't it?

By omnicronx on 4/30/2010 11:11:35 AM , Rating: 2
I don't really agree, the nature of capacitive screens and touch interfaces in general do not necessarily match very well with small screen sizes at higher resolutions.

Things would be pretty small on a 10" screen at 1268x720, not exactly the best kind of thing for a touch driven interface that requires larger buttons and such.(i know Win7 has stuff like this built in, but its just not the same) Even the android tablets I have seen around the web look more impressive right now.

