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Fantastic. A touch-screen with small buttons, stock Windows 7. Ships with IE8. $200-$300 more than an iPad: you could buy a netbook and an iPad for the same pri

by cryptoz 16y ago

Fantastic. A touch-screen with small buttons, stock Windows 7. Ships with IE8. $200-$300 more than an iPad: you could buy a netbook and an iPad for the same price. WTF? Total shit. Who wants Windows 7 on a tablet?

endtime 16y ago
Actually, I kind of do, but not for $800. Not everyone likes the constraints of iOS, you know.
- babeKnuth 16y ago
  Right. So you just reinforced the original comment's point. You don't want one because it's too expensive.
  - endtime 16y ago
    Well, I was responding to this part: "Who wants Windows 7 on a tablet?"
    - babeKnuth 16y ago
      ok, sorry. i misinterpreted it as "who wants win7 on a tab for $800?"
yequalsx 16y ago
I'm a heavy user of Captivate and Camtasia and I teach math. I need digital ink for my classes. It allows me to markup graphs and all other documents. I would be a user of this tablet. I think the greatest shortcoming of the iPad is the lack of digital ink and native pen support. Also, screen recording apps. From the promo videos it seems that this device is targeting vertical markets.
- chollida1 16y ago
  > I would be a user of this tablet. I think the greatest shortcoming of the iPad is the lack of digital ink and native pen support. My wife agree's. She's also a teacher of math and physics and she was excited to get an iPad until she found out she couldn't use a stylus to mark with. if this tablet fulfills that need then this may be the tablet for her.
  - glhaynes 16y ago
    There are some very nice feeling styluses (and some that aren't nice feeling at all, too) that work on iPad - this one from Griffin is by far my favorite from the ones I've tried. http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/stylus http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/stylus
    - yequalsx 16y ago
      The problem though is that a stylus is not enough by itself. What is needed is the concept of digital ink. With my tablet PC I can markup any object that can be printed.
    - chollida1 16y ago
      I didn't know this, thank you:) The use case my wife has is she wants to mark math homework, similarly to how you would mark it on paper, ie arbitrary pen input anywhere. Does the iPad allow for this? or is there any app that does this?
      - deleted 16y ago
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      - glhaynes 16y ago
        What format would the homework documents be in? I know I've seen several apps that let you annotate PDFs with "ink", but I haven't personally used any.
ugh 16y ago
It’s very different from an iPad and there will probably be very, very few people who will want it but there will be some (i.e. it will be about as successful as all other tablet PCs of the last decade). If HP wants to beat the iPad – that’s how Ballmer framed it, HP doesn’t seem to see it that way – this is an unmitigated disaster. The HP Slate has potential to be a nice niche product, not to beat the iPad. Or, to put it in another way, the iPad and iPad-class devices have a shot at changing the future of computing, this has not.

by cryptoz 16y ago

endtime 16y ago

Actually, I kind of do, but not for $800. Not everyone likes the constraints of iOS, you know.

babeKnuth 16y ago
Right. So you just reinforced the original comment's point. You don't want one because it's too expensive.
- endtime 16y ago
  Well, I was responding to this part: "Who wants Windows 7 on a tablet?"
  - babeKnuth 16y ago
    ok, sorry. i misinterpreted it as "who wants win7 on a tab for $800?"

yequalsx 16y ago

I'm a heavy user of Captivate and Camtasia and I teach math. I need digital ink for my classes. It allows me to markup graphs and all other documents. I would be a user of this tablet. I think the greatest shortcoming of the iPad is the lack of digital ink and native pen support. Also, screen recording apps. From the promo videos it seems that this device is targeting vertical markets.

chollida1 16y ago
> I would be a user of this tablet. I think the greatest shortcoming of the iPad is the lack of digital ink and native pen support. My wife agree's. She's also a teacher of math and physics and she was excited to get an iPad until she found out she couldn't use a stylus to mark with. if this tablet fulfills that need then this may be the tablet for her.
- glhaynes 16y ago
  There are some very nice feeling styluses (and some that aren't nice feeling at all, too) that work on iPad - this one from Griffin is by far my favorite from the ones I've tried. http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/stylus http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/stylus
  - yequalsx 16y ago
    The problem though is that a stylus is not enough by itself. What is needed is the concept of digital ink. With my tablet PC I can markup any object that can be printed.
  - chollida1 16y ago
    I didn't know this, thank you:) The use case my wife has is she wants to mark math homework, similarly to how you would mark it on paper, ie arbitrary pen input anywhere. Does the iPad allow for this? or is there any app that does this?
    - deleted 16y ago
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    - glhaynes 16y ago
      What format would the homework documents be in? I know I've seen several apps that let you annotate PDFs with "ink", but I haven't personally used any.

ugh 16y ago

It’s very different from an iPad and there will probably be very, very few people who will want it but there will be some (i.e. it will be about as successful as all other tablet PCs of the last decade). If HP wants to beat the iPad – that’s how Ballmer framed it, HP doesn’t seem to see it that way – this is an unmitigated disaster. The HP Slate has potential to be a nice niche product, not to beat the iPad. Or, to put it in another way, the iPad and iPad-class devices have a shot at changing the future of computing, this has not.