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HP has during final suggested its long-awaited Slate, an 8.9-inch tablet with capacitive multi-touch as well as using Windows 7. The Slate, you will recollect, was proudly touted by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer as an iPad killer, behind prior to a iPad even existed. So is this an iPad aspirant? No freakin’ approach.

The HP Slate 500 Tablet PERSONAL COMPUTER is only that, a PERSONAL COMPUTER. It runs on the 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor, has 2GB IMPEL as well as the 64GB SSD, along with a Broadcom accelerator for 1080p video, a USB port, HDMI-out, the hardware Ctrl-Alt-Delete switch, a button to turn on a on-screen set of keys as well as a pair of cameras, a single upon a back for photos and a single on a front for Skyping. It also has, rather unbelievably, a slide-out Windows permit. That’s right. Apparently any appurtenance with Windows pre-installed needs to uncover a license info as well as HP, in order to keep a rear design purify, opted to supplement the slide-out cosmetic club to arrangement it. Oh, it is also Wi-Fi only: There’s no 3G airwave.

There is one good hold: a screen includes the Wacom digitizer so you can make use of a stylus to take records on shade. There is nowhere to store a stylus, yet, so you’ll remove it shortly enough.

Clearly, the Slate is to full-featured inscription PCs as the netbook is to a correct cover: the scaled behind, underpowered moveable with the too-small shade, using an OS written for a desktop, not a touch-operated device. HP has tried to justify the ridiculous cost with a disclaimer in the press recover, that says it is “designed privately for business.” The complaint is, businesses have been already buying a iPad, that is written only to be great.

We’re certainly seeking forward to saying some correct rivals to the iPad, with ten-inch screens using an OS written for hold. The HP Slate, a netbook with a set of keys blank, ain’t it.

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