HP Slate teases us with another video appearance
By Vlad Savov 
posted January 26th 2010 1:03AM
posted January 26th 2010 1:03AM
posted January 26th 2010 1:03AM
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@Swagger - if it is cheap enough & the general public actually prefers the slate form-factor (which I doubt, but w/e) to normal laptops, why not?
@ NewL
Don't bother, he's just a troll.
@Swagger
Your icon is from an invitation to a Tablet PC event.
@Swagger = BIGGEST APPLE TROLL ON THE INTERNET
So what will Apple call their tablet?
@einhanderkiller
Probably something as stupid as the 3GS name. Such as iPad, iSlate. or iTablet.
It SHOULD be called Macbook Touch. (Sure, it doesn't fold like a book - but just consider Macbook as meaning "portable")
@Apple Fan
No, I meant that since HP has a tablet called the Slate, and Apple's device is rumored to be called the iSlate, there could be some confusion.
@einhanderkiller
They will call it T A B L E N A T O R !;)
@einhanderkiller
Applet
@Priutilov i'd call it SLABATRON!
@tonyunreal Yeah, like the term "applet" isn't confusing enough already.
@Apple Fan
It won't be iPad...that sounds like Apple's competing with Tampax
@einhanderkiller
Maybe iPad. It will be only a iPhone with a larger screen. But one thing is sure, it will set another new industrial standard among other tablets.
Perhaps, Apple will introduce another online store to sell books, magazine & newspaper. In additions, Apple may have a new reader application to read all the books, magazines, newspaper etc.
Alternatively, all books can be distributed in forms of Apps and be sold in App Store.
All newspapers can be viewed via Safari (full version) with flash plugins or other codec plugins for the added features in the websites. Or they can be read from Apps which are tailor-made by the newspaper companies.
We can do all of these (except flash) now in iPhone, but with a small screen. We can also do all of these on laptop/netbook(and more), but being heavier and bulky.
Some fresh user experience will be added in the device, like the multi-touch in iPhone.
However, I hope Apple to do them simple. Using Mac OSX is like using Windows now. It is full of features that someone needs time to learn and the usage is not as intuitive as in the past.
Hardwarewise, Apple wins. They have good design plus renovated user interface.
@einhanderkiller Bar of Soap 2.0 - cleanest UI... Or perhaps iBook, Apple Cake; or Mac Skinny
@nicholas1987ucsb Who said they didn't want to compete with them?
@Leo Sands
You guys crack me up, you really do. "Hardware wise, Apple wins." Because you've personally seen the spec sheet for this device Apple hasn't even acknowledged exists, right? Oh, loved your utopian vision of what the device should do, too. I imagined monks doing a gregorian chant in the background while reading that. Did it take an entire box of tissues to clean up after you finished typing?
Sheesh.
@einhanderkiller
iPod Touch DX
@einhanderkiller
iScribble
@einhanderkiller You mean like the Apple iPhone and Linksys iPhone?
@einhanderkiller They'll call it girl, they'll call it Stacey, they'll call it her, they'll call it Jane.
@einhanderkiller
Apple will call their device something different than iSlate. They want their machine to be thought of as a new concept device not just another Tablet or Slate computer. They will not make the same mistake Microsoft and HP did and just introduce a MAC in a tablet form. There device will be a controlled access device like the iPhone where all content will come from iTunes so they can get a cut of all your media and app purchases. It will not be an open operating system like MAC and Windows it will be just an extension of the iPhone OS. Easy enough for the masses to use without the Geek learning curve. Give it to a toddler and he can use it. No Control key. No MAC keys. Just swipe here touch there and run your media and apps. It will be a consumer device like the iPod and iPhone not a Geek box.
@garysturn Barf... leave this thread to people who are interested in THIS tablet. There's like 5000 other Apple Tablet threads on Engadget, go bloviate on one of those threads.
I want one of these ONLY if it's a Cap+Electrostatic touch. I want to play with Photoshop on it.
@crapple
electrostatic --> I mean like the N-trig stuff
n-trig.com/Content.aspx?Page=CapacitiveTouch
@sweet greggo
Sorry. I am not a blinded apple fan.
I did not see the spec of tablet. I just predict that the design of tablet apple going to introduce will still lead those of others. The prediction is based on the existing apple products. Of course, the price of the apple tablet is also an important factor to customer.
I don't understand why they never talk about actual hardware specs, price or delivery date? Is this a real product or are they waiting for Apple to release their version and then adjust the specs to compete?...and why so much bezel!!?
P.S. That guy is creepy as hell. The girl seemed very bored, and what was that look at 4:07? lol.
@nicholas1987ucsb
That would be the MAXiPad
@einhanderkiller
Pause Video at 30-34 seconds. he looks like a sex craised maniac.
@Leo Sands
You were pretty much spot on.
@nicholas1987ucsb
Oh man, hindsight cracks me up
he is doing good? or doing well . . .
Way to watch the first 30 seconds of the video and make an insightful comment!
@Mr 14
you've done a bang up job contributing yourself. I'll leave that for the editors. if you want to know my two cents so damn badly though, I really like how she nailed him at the end with the "why 2010 for the slate?" question. it was a good way to sort of poke at them seemingly snagging the 'slate' name from the dregs of the internet. and the intense staring he was doing at her, which she was trying to avert by looking at his wild hand and arm gestures.
@(Unverified) It did look like he came within inches of actually hitting her. I also found interesting how far away he held the device from her. dude's got gadget intimacy issues.
Can't wait for Apple's tablet!
"If it's made by Apple, I'll buy it!"
/FACEPALM
let me see....
not iSlate. Pass.
@FAP FAP FAP
Name + Avatar = Eeeeewwwww (?)
Trying to get a little buzz going before Apple's tablet takes over...
@Apple Fan
Yea this reeks of Ballmer...
*plugs nose
@Apple Fan
there's a chance that this will be a more capable computer than what Apple is releasing.
I use to have a slate TabletPC, and I did video editing on it. Will Apple give that to us on Wednesday?
@Apple Fan Depends what you mean by Video Editing. You can edit video on the iPhone with ReelDirector. Edit clips. Assemble them. Add transitions etc. So presumably you'll be able to do at least that much with the "iSlate". And likely you'd expect programs like ReelDirector to be enhanced over time to add more functionality on the iSlate. So the obvious answer is YES. Can you do complex editing? Probably not, at least not yet...
@Apple Fan Microsoft has always been striving to innovate and trying to regain their loss glamour during the past few years.
Seeing them releasing a Tablet, obviously to compete with Apple's super tablet is just exciting. And wow, Steve Ballmer seems to be shy on revealing the specs too early. Just what you expect with a CEo of his astute. More details of HP slate: http://bit.ly/hp-slate-tablet-details
@Apple Fan
HP should of had working models ready on the day they announced it. Released it alongside all those desktop and laptop refreshes. It might have actually killed a little of the Apple Buzz.
But only showing off a concept model is useless, especially when Apple unveils things that you are actually going to be able to buy either that day, or in a month or two.
This is why Apple is good at product launches, cause they don't tease us with a concept and tell us we can't have it, they tease us with subtle leaks of reality and tell us "soon".
Part of me wants a Tablet, but most of me wants a 5" iPhone with a high res display.
@leenakaimo: I wouldn't say that they're doing this 'obviously to compete with Apple'. Small form factor and tablet computing are arenas that Microsoft HAS been aiming at for a decade, bu the technology wasn't there, until now.
Phil McKinney is absolutely right when saying it's a 'perfect storm' of tech. It's only since the advent of inexpensive but powerful CPUs, whether ARM or X86 based, and the lowered cost of LCD displays, memory, storage etc, that affordable computers have become a reality, which really took off with the netbook.
One could argue that Apple has seen the growth of small form factor computing, and the Apple slate is THEIR attempt to compete in that arena.
@7egend It seems you know nothing about how long it took the iphone to come out. I don't know why people make apple to be the perfect company.
for a split second i thought it was the apple tablet oh shit lol
no but seriously why hp being so coy about this, it seems really interesting.
YAWN! Too little too late HP/Microsoft.
1 day left!!!!!
@winbsodos An interesting comment seeing as a) we don't know what is going to be announced, making the 'too little' rather premature and b) we don't know when either is going to hit the shelves, making the 'too late' rather presumptuous.
@winbsodos id##t.
@eka
Did you post using a Nexus One and its speech to text function?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/24/googles-nexus-one-censors-your-voice-to-text-input-we-you/