HP Slate Windows 7 Tablet Video Review #2 Reveals Official Specs & Features
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A few days ago we showed you an unofficial video review of the HP Slate, the Windows 7 tablet we’ve been waiting for all year long. But we were definitely not impressed with the way the Slate performed in the wild. Sure the device brings some new features when compared with the current iPad, but it doesn’t seem capable to perform as seamlessly as the iPad.
Today we have a second video review for you and this one offers us a more in-depth look at what seems to be the official business model of the HP Slate. We even have a box and accessories for the Slate and I have to say that this time around I’m convinced this thing is real.
The video appears to be recorded with an iPhone, again, and it starts off showing us the actual specs and features of the device, most of them found on the back of the box. Here’s what you can expect from this HP Slate tablet:
- 1.86GHz Intel Atom Processor Z540
- 64GB SSD Drive
- 2GB DDR3 RAM
- Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
- HP Webcam
- 8.9-inch WSVGA widescreen touchscreen display with multitouch
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 with shared graphics memory
- Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Video Accelerator
- 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- HP Broadband Wireless
- SD Digital Media Reader
- 2-Cell 30WHr Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery
- HP Slate Dock with 2 USB and 1 HDMI port and headphones jack
- Stylus (if we see a stylus does that mean they screwed it all up?)
- 3-megapixel camera with video recording
This video review also goes to show us how the video camera and webcam perform, the Internet in action, again, and various other Windows 7 features. Looking at the whole show we can’t help but notice how the whole experience is pretty sluggish. The HP Slate definitely has better specs and features than the iPad, but it doesn’t look like it can perform like a tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab offers a totally different experience and maybe that’s what HP should look into.
The HP Slate, as it looks and feels (at least virtually) right now, doesn’t impress. In fact it seems that HP has only come up with a different netbook here, one that has multitouch support. There’s nothing new, there’s no innovation here, and there’s definitely nothing to attract tablet fans, and by nothing I mean the content you expect to get on a tablet. In fact it seems to me that I am looking at an HP TouchSmart mini-desktop rather than a tablet. Hopefully the final version of the Slate will have some magic for us. Anyone truly interested in it?
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Because it’s windows 7, that means you can download and install tons of software yourself. Flash should be installed without any problem you may have with the ipad (for which it is in fact impossible). This thing is can be of much more use than the ipad toy, which has the Apple brand on it and costs way more than it is worth.
I’d agree – getting away from Apple’s orweillian stranglehold on what can be on the machine would be a huge draw for me. It’s my PC (or tablet); I shouldn’t have to void my warranty to put whatever I want on it. If I want to add a bike rack to my jeep, I don’t need Jeep’s permission nor have to go to the Jeep Store to buy approved bike racks.
Why is this even compared to iPad, sure Slate has Tablet form-factory, but Slate is an netbook with touch-screen.
I want to compare this to other netbooks, not iPad. It’s obvious that iPad and Galaxy Tab has more fluid animations etc. because they are not fully operational computers, more like just overgrown mobile-phones.
What i would be interested is how well can you draw on this Slate, can it run Office smoothly and other areas of a standard netbook-review.
If you would compare iPad to Netbook, iPad would suck.