HP Scrambling to Meet Demand for Windows Slate

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I honestly hope this tablet does well - and will eventually make it's way toward the public retail side. (for a cheaper price, of course..)
 
So it seems there is a market for tablets not running some wussified consumer oriented OS.
 
[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]What happen with HP using WebOS on its tablets. What a whimsical move by HP, spend 2 billion on Palm, and then just store it in the garage.[/citation]
This tablet was in the works long before HP bought Palm, and was designed to run Windows. Thus it's no surprise that it was released long before any WebOS device.

They've announced that there will be a number of WebOS devices (phones, tablets and printers) released next year. Don't hold your breath though - these things take time.
 
[citation][nom]skine[/nom]This tablet was in the works long before HP bought Palm, and was designed to run Windows. Thus it's no surprise that it was released long before any WebOS device. They've announced that there will be a number of WebOS devices (phones, tablets and printers) released next year. Don't hold your breath though - these things take time.[/citation]

Yea but the WebOS technology was available long before they bought Palm....you know, the way they make business looks like they buy-and-sell off Craigslist....
 
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"HP Scrambling to Meet Demand for Windows Slate"
as in:
"we simply cannot meet the millions of pre-orders"
or
"holy crap!? there is actually demand for this thing? shit! we better get a factory actually making them or something!"
 
"According to Ubergizmo, HP only manufactured 5,000 units of the Tablet 500 and was caught off-guard after receiving 9,000 orders for the device, to the point where meeting demand required some retooling. "
While IPad sold 46,000 per day.....
HP slate's demands is this HIGHT.
 
[citation][nom]stm1185[/nom]So it seems there is a market for tablets not running some wussified consumer oriented OS.[/citation]

Not really... they sold 9,000 of these.... they made 5,000... barely a success story. They've been purchased by a small percentage of the die hard fans and HP employees.

Shitty battery life, high price, full-fledged OS on a netbook hardware = failure.
 
[citation][nom]smeker[/nom]Not really... they sold 9,000 of these.... they made 5,000... barely a success story. They've been purchased by a small percentage of the die hard fans and HP employees.Shitty battery life, high price, full-fledged OS on a netbook hardware = failure.[/citation]
This tablet was made for enterprises not for general availability, hence the full-fledged OS. Also netbooks come with a full-fledged OS.

High Price? Doesn't the 64Gb iPad costs $700? This is $100 dollars more expensive but it comes with a much more powerful CPU, GPU and twice the memory.
 
[citation][nom]yao[/nom]9,000? what a sad number.. hardly a large number to brag about.[/citation]

And how many corporate ipad sales are there? Oh right...zero because nothing meant for actual productivity works with the ipad. The Slate for $800 is purely for businesses, so I'd bet hands down 90% of those orders are enterprise users.
 
[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Doesn't the 64Gb iPad costs $700? This is $100 dollars more expensive but it comes with a much more powerful CPU, GPU and twice the memory.[/citation]

I would anyday spend 100 more to get the best hardware in a shiny case or not... i actually use my hardware rather than boosting my e-peen like some clueless peeps seems to do!
 
Can't wait to see these in the wild and get people's opinions and reviews. At $800, it's more than I want to drop on it unless I could really use it.

If it's good for doing work, and a little play outside of work, this could be a great purchase.
 
[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]This tablet was made for enterprises not for general availability, hence the full-fledged OS. Also netbooks come with a full-fledged OS.High Price? Doesn't the 64Gb iPad costs $700? This is $100 dollars more expensive but it comes with a much more powerful CPU, GPU and twice the memory.[/citation]

Nope, iPad's pricing is $499, $599, and $699 so that's a $400 starting price difference.
10 hours of battery life vs 4 hours of battery life... hmmmm
The whole point of the tablet is that it's mobile, you are carying it in your hands.
Having to carry a charger or being hooked up to power most of the time takes that "mobility" from the slate away... I might as well get a laptop.
Yes I am aware that netbooks come with full fledged OS, that's why they are not selling as well.
Having a more powerfull CPU means squat when your OS is not optimized for tablets.
Microsoft figured it out and so did HP, hence the Windows phone 7 and Web OS.

Slate is a test product - someone's pet project.... and what is a better prove than HP making only 5,000 units. They never expected it to be their main selling product.

Somehow these die hard fans cant not understand that... oh well, live goes on...
 
[citation][nom]smeker[/nom]Nope, iPad's pricing is $499, $599, and $699 so that's a $400 starting price difference.[/citation]This slate comes with a 64GB SSD, to my knowledge the 64GB iPad costs $699, so $101 difference.
[citation][nom]smeker[/nom]Yes I am aware that netbooks come with full fledged OS, that's why they are not selling as well.[/citation]Since when does quality has anything to do with sales? This means that MacBook line is really bad because worldwide they sell very little when compared to other companies.
[citation][nom]smeker[/nom]Microsoft figured it out and so did HP, hence the Windows phone 7 and Web OS.[/citation]Yep, Microsoft developed WP7 because of tablets yet no WP7 tablet was even announced.
[citation][nom]smeker[/nom]Slate is a test product - someone's pet project.... and what is a better prove than HP making only 5,000 units. They never expected it to be their main selling product.Somehow these die hard fans cant not understand that... oh well, live goes on...[/citation]To which part this tablet being made for enterprises didn't you understand? How many enterprises use the iPad?
 
[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Since when does quality has anything to do with sales? [/citation]
Since when do netbooks represent quality? lol
[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Yep, Microsoft developed WP7 because of tablets yet no WP7 tablet was even announced.[/citation]
Nope, they produced WP7 because their mobile OS sucked ass. Balmer noted that WP7 can be customized to be used on tablet devices. He did not want to speculate so I guess time will show. Iam betting on it, since Win 7 running on a sub par CPU is just stupid, performance wise and price wise.
[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]To which part this tablet being made for enterprises didn't you understand? How many enterprises use the iPad?[/citation]
More than they use the Slate...
 
5000 units and then they laid everyone off? That doesnt sound right, what company would make 5000 of anything and call it quits before pre-orders were even booked?
 
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