Hanvon CEO smashes Apple effigy at TouchPad launch (video)

Want to draw attention to an otherwise ordinary piece of consumer electronics? Do something emotive like, say, smash a giant Apple ice sculpture in front of the world's Chinese press. Besides putting the boys in Cupertino on notice, Hanvon's officially launching the company's TouchPad B10 -- a 10.1-inch multitouch capacitive slate that we went hands-on with back in March. A €500ish device that runs Windows 7 on a retired 1.3GHz Celeron M ULV743 processor and Intel GMA 4500 graphics capable of delivering about 3.5 hours of battery life. Other specs include 2GB of memory, a regular ol' 2.5-inch 250GB or 320GB hard disk, HDMI-out, and WiFi. Watch the theatrics after the break while we wait for Hanvon's 1 million units sold announcement.

[jony Posted May 19th 2010 2:22PM]

I actually own one,,, bought one in china before they where for sale for the public market and from my experience its really fast and responsive, amazing screen resolution, good for watching movies, multitasking, skype, everything you want to do on a regular computer.... the only bad think is 3 hour battery,, not even 3.5....

[dmgabe Posted May 19th 2010 2:32PM]

@jony Everything I would want to do on a regular computer, I would rather ... do on a regular computer. This has been the reason tablets have failed to make it to the mainstream. Before the iPad, all the companies tried to make tablets or slates function as full featured PC's without a keyboard, but that isn't what the majority of consumers want in a slate. Sure, there will be a handful of die hard computer geeks here on engadget that say anything less than a full OS is unacceptable, but most people want something that is simple, fast, reliable, and will last throughout the day. If you really need the features of a desktop OS, then a slate probably isn't the best choice to begin with.

Sorry my rant got a little off topic of your post.

[chilipalm Posted May 25th 2010 11:27AM]

IPAD KILLER