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HP's Slate gets delayed
THE WEB IS RIFE with speculation that HP won't use Windows 7 on its trumpeted Slate tablet, according to Tech Crunch.
Today is not an especially good day for tablet alternatives to the Ipad. First, we hear that Microsoft is pulling the plug on Courier, which actually sounded like a decent piece of kit. Now, rumours suggest that HP will bin Windows 7 on its Slate.
HP's Ipad killer looks set to be dead on arrival, or at least significantly delayed, if Tech Crunch's sources are to be believed. The Slate was riding a nice wave of publicity after the Vole's CEO, Steve Ballmer, showed it off in his keynote at CES in January. It was scheduled for release this summer and the buzz about it was good because the public is primed for something in a tablet PC that's not an Ipad.
But rumour has it that HP is not happy with Windows 7 for the Slate. That might be too power hungry for a tablet that was touted as a full on multi-media hub.
This isn't to say that the HP Slate is dead. It is probably not entirely coincidence that HP announced its purchase of Palm yesterday.
HP executive vice president Todd Bradley indicated that HP wanted Palm's "innovative operating system", which it thinks will provide an ideal platform to expand HP's mobility strategy.
So that only leaves one possible answer. It looks like HP will say aloha to Palm's WebOS on its Slate tablet after a few months of geeky tinkering.
But spending $1.2 billion surely has to be an expensive way for HP to get its hands on a tablet PC operating system. µ
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The iPhone was a success, but it wasn't really introduced into a struggling market. The tablet PC market has really just never been a success because of expense, typically costing more than a regular laptop, due to the touchscreen, mostly. So, now the iPad is out, and while it's a decent product, despite specs that would be excusable with a much lower price tag, the biggest problem, and threat to Apple is not the competition, but the lack of competition. The only way the tablet market will boom is if there's at least ONE other contender to push each other to innovate. If someone else would put out a product that at least is a little bit resembling a competitive product, then it could spark an Apple vs. <insert battle and heat up the market. Unfortunately, so far, competing products have been few, and the ones that HAVE been announced have some small spec disappointments, battery concerns, delays, and cancellations. I mean, it really doesn't seem that hard. Maybe HTC will get into the talet market. Those guys seem to understand the formula. Take cutting edge tech, add intuitive control and design, sell it to everyone, release a newer, sleeker, improved, more cutting edge model as quickly as possible; rinse; repeat.
So Ron complains about illiteracy yet does not spell "your" correctly...
Don't you love it when a pompous ass gets pwned by his own failure?
Yes, WebOS is Linux-based. And in spite of all Microsoft's efforts to slim it down after Visaster, Windows is STILL unsuited to lightweight mobile devices.
Where are now all the people complaining that the iPad was not "a real computer" with "a real operating system" and were hyping the slate as "the real thing"? The iPad is not for me, but it's probably, right now, the best way you can "think" of a tablet for media consumption...
@Illiterate
I think you mean...
How about proofreading "your" stuff!
I completely agree, i love the look of palms webOS, comapred to windows 7 on a tablet device, hell yes.
Its just likeapples iphone though, ipad rivals come out a year later and actually catch up with market share about 3 years down the line after apple has revised its product 3 times.
Back @ Koes
I should have read the article a bit more carefully. My bad.
@Wicked Zoomah! It's not the old Palm OS. It's the new webOS which has been release less than a year ago on the new Palm phones - the Palm Pre and the Pixi. That OS is actually more slick looking than Android and the iPhone OS. They don't need to change it.
Perhaps dualboot WebOS & W7? Delayed as they port WebOS to x86?
If the palm OS could be modernized to look and feel more like something that came out in this decade, it may be a good option for them. It may be too little, too late.
As for the story, me = sceptical too.
How about proofreading you stuff!
And while you're at it HP, how about an ideal CPU? As in something other than Atom. Tegra2?Snapdragon? A multicore ARM design and my money is yours HP. Please take notes.
Take them for what they're worth. HP has said nothing about delaying the HP Slate. These are just rumors coming from one anti-Microsoft person with an anonymous source.