HP Slate teases us with another video appearance

The HP Slate -- has there ever been a more iconic, more groundbreaking, more life-altering device? Oh, there has? Well anyway, HP CTO Phil McKinney has been friendly enough to share some of the history behind the development of his company's newly announced tablet, which is set for a release at some point later this year. Starting with e-reader prototypes five years ago, he tells us, HP steadily built up an idea of the sort of "rich media experience" modern consumers are lusting after. It's only now, however, in a "perfect storm" of innovation, that HP finds itself capable of pairing the right hardware with the mainstream-friendly price point it was shooting for. Join us after the break for the full dose of education on this multitouch Windows 7 machine.

[MrHashbrown Posted Jan 26th 2010 9:57AM]

Honestly the Slate that HP has built looks great. The screen looks good (kinda glossy), the form factor is small but not too small, and who can complain about Windows 7?

The only real disappointment I see here is the fact that HP and Microsoft hyped it up and it is just a little PC. But then again, I wouldn't mind owning something like that at all.

[JAM Posted Jan 26th 2010 10:05AM]

Is it just me, or is the guy in the video staring at her with some crazy stalker eyes at the beginning? I know it gave me the heebie jeebies lol

[One Love Posted Jan 26th 2010 10:26AM]

HP Fail.

[strommsarnac Posted Jan 26th 2010 10:35AM]

My god. Why is it when Apple FINALLY comes out with something that's been around for YEARS, people think everyone else is copying them?!??!?

Apple did not create the concept of a tablet PC! Accept it fanboys.

[Davin Black Posted Jan 26th 2010 10:43AM]

*yawn*

Wake me when they decide to stop BS-ing and come out with the Courier.

[Missing Matter Posted Jan 26th 2010 11:48AM]

@Michael Scrip

"People might be excited to run full Windows applications on the HP Slate, but I doubt it's got a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet."

It may or may not, but there are plenty of tablets out there that DO have pressure sensitive Wacom digitizers which are perfect for Photoshop.

Seriously, I love how everyone is an expert on tablets these days and have never even used one.

[Fanfoot Posted Jan 27th 2010 1:34AM]

@Missing Matter Most people probably won't care about stylus input, so the device likely needs to work without one. That said, anybody who designs a tablet without any thought to how to add a stylus is probably wrong too. Hopefully some kind of after-market or add-on stylus, WITH pressure sensitivity (perhaps in the pen itself) , will be available for BOTH of these devices. Artists will certainly want one. Students too perhaps. And vertical market applications (think signatures). Too large a market to ignore. But don't go thinking everybody wants a stylus, they don't.

[Steve Jobs Jr Posted Jan 26th 2010 12:20PM]

@cherryboom

So your telling us that the iPhone is like cockroaches as well.

I agree with you.

[Kokney Posted Jan 26th 2010 12:34PM]

If this is the best the HP marketing department can do they should be ashamed of themselves.

[Chief2 Posted Jan 26th 2010 1:11PM]

Phil just looks completely tickled during her introduction. What fun!

[MacMan Posted Jan 26th 2010 1:28PM]

It should have at least another more-specialised OS as well as Windows, just like their TouchSmart PCs have.

Best of both worlds - full Windows when/if you need it and a custom OS that delivers your media and internet browsing etc.

[Missing Matter Posted Jan 26th 2010 2:05PM]

@cherryboom

There is no tablet version of Windows. Tablet functionality is built in by default.

[Otakuon Posted Jan 26th 2010 4:33PM]

Personally I am far more interested in a device such as this HP slate than the Apple iTablet. While the iTablet looks sexy, devices such as the Slate are just a whole lot more useful as they run rull versions of Windows 7 which means you can run just about any Windows application on them (most importantly some sort of "office" suite). This makes them much more attractive as a device that can replace your existing portable computer (laptop/netbook) so that instead of carrying around three devices (phone, laptop/netbook, e-reader/iTablet/Whatever) you just have two.

[Fanfoot Posted Jan 27th 2010 1:37AM]

@Otakuon Yup, for tech geeks you might be right. Problem is there are more of those non-tech heads out there. You know all those housewives and grandfathers that can use the iPhone? This is the computer for them. They would much rather have a device that does what they need easily, without patches and service updates, with simple application installation, major ease of use etc. Remember where the numbers are.

[stabbytheicepic Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:13PM]

@cherryboom

Lol the apple tablet is running an almost stock version of the iphone OS. Look how dumb you look now.

[Alexpeegs Posted Jan 29th 2010 9:23PM]

now we don't have to stick to safari and i can multitask to the extreme with win7 look forward to this product looks like a zillion times better than the restricted. This device will be a blow out compared to the ipad just imaging using your WIN7 OS in your hands sounds Uber to me. Just my Opinion.

[JesusManson323 Posted Jan 30th 2010 6:27AM]

THE HP SLATE is gonna kick the iTampon's ass:
* Windows 7
* touch screen
* full OS
* Flash support (Netflix, Hulu, games)
* WiFi
* multi-tasking
* upgradeable
* Office 2010 productivity suite

[Plexus Posted Jan 31st 2010 3:14PM]

I was thinking of upgrading my rapidly aging MSI wind netbook with something from the new gen pinetrail/ion crop of netbooks or Culv thingies, but now I 'm gonna wait for the first tablet capable of running decently a decent edition of win7.
HP, MSI, Acer and all the usual suspects seem poised and hell bent on blowing the i(genic)Pad out of the geekosphere.

[circuslife Posted Feb 19th 2010 1:06AM]

If it enters the market @ $500, I'd gladly choose it over iPad. Definitely.
Here's HP Slate vs. iPad, specs-wise:
http://www.techpinas.com/2010/02/hp-slate-vs-apple-ipad-tablet-battle.html