HP Slate Leaked, Referred to as “Meh”

April 19th, 2010 by Avram Piltch, LAPTOP Online Editorial Director  

Spanish-language Web site Conecti.ca appears to have gotten hold of the as-yet-unreleased HP Slate. Though they don’t have video or benchmarks of any kind, the site does have a few pictures, and a short description which says, in Spanish, that the “official verdict is meh” and that “if anything, it is clear that this gadget is not a competition to IPAD but the netbooks already on the market.” Of course, challenging the iPad can be tough, but there are ways a company like HP can one-up Apple in the tablet space.

Engadget linked to Conecti.ca’s post, seizing on the “meh” remark and commenting that the HP Slate “really does look like a chopped up netbook.” But we have to ask if the chassis will really be a problem as it really doesn’t look bad. The real issue is going to be how it performs, in terms of responsiveness and battery life, and the ecosystem of apps and content that will run on it.

Conecti.ca really dinged the HP Slate, not for its looks, but for running Windows 7 as opposed to something lighter like the iPhone OS (or maybe even Android). However, we can’t help but hold out hope for the Slate precisely because it runs Windows 7, which already has a huge ecosystem of apps and content available for it. So even if HP can’t inspire developers to write apps for the Slate, any Windows program should work.

What concerns us most about the Slate are the leaked specs, which include a weak Intel Atom Z530 CPU, a 1024 x 600 screen (lower res than the iPad), and a mere 1GB of RAM. To evaluate how well it works, we’d really have to put it through some tests, not just stare at a few photos. Until then, we’ll hold out hope that this product is more than the some of its parts.

via Engadget

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2 Responses to “HP Slate Leaked, Referred to as “Meh””

  1. Juan Chulilla Says:
    April 20th, 2010 at 4:18 am

    The problem is that the blogger is young and inexperienced. The text is closer to an long comment in someone else’s blog rather than a proper, informative, insightful post. Indeed, he missed the opportunity of analyze de Slate badly.

    The author is also too much impressed by the iPad and is short of experience with different devices. The conclusion is plain ridiculous: Slate is going to compete with netbooks and not with the iPad. ¿Qué? What?

    I don’t know who in HP decided that this young man deserved “the honour of being the first who posted about the real thing”. Maybe is a creative strategy for Spanish Speakers, young blood talking in youngish.

    Yeah, right. What a missed oportunity, anyway.

    AND, por el amor de Dios, hombre, it is said “ad-nauseam”, no “ad-nauseam”. Ad-Nauseam no es que “haya muchos”, sino que una situación se repite demasiado. No vomitas por ver muchos puertos USB. Post said that Slate has “expansion ports ad-nauseum”, which I guess is totally nonsense. What he tries to say is that the device has a lot of expansion port and, trying to produce a sound hyperbole, confuses even Spanish-speakers readers and, of course, Google translator too. You are not going to puke at the sight of a lot of expansion ports.

  2. Juan Marziali Says:
    April 28th, 2010 at 11:35 am

    I don’t know what HP was thinking giving the Slate to an Apple Fanboy for its first “hands on”. I read the “review” in Spanish and it is the worst piece of nonsense I have ever read. Basically they were not impressed with the device because it runs Windows and offers everything that it missing in the iPad. They do NOT mention anything about performance other than to say it takes too long for Windows to boot.

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