HP Scrambling to Meet Demand for Windows Slate

[vant]

LOL. 9000 orders. This is a massive FLOP.

The iPad did 300k in ONE DAY. 10mil by end of 2010. 9000 orders 'scrambling to meet demand'? Don't make me laugh.

Enterprise?

"The company found that during the past eight months over 4,000 enterprises adopted the iPad and their deployments ranged from one iPad to over 1,000 devices in a single enterprise."

It is very safe to say that the iPad easily sold more to enterprises than HP's entire order log.

 

[talzara]

Let's say Apple made a tablet in complete secrecy, slapped a label that says "HP" on it, did no advertising, and sold it only on the HP website. Think it'll sell?

There is a group of Tablet PC fanatics who realize that real tablets can run real applications, like Onenote and Photoshop. Apparently they never got the memo that running real applications is now old-fashioned, and that we're supposed to go around looking at HTML5 videos. They never got the memo that styluses were old-fashioned, and that we should all be finger-painting in Photoshop, or typing with on-screen keyboards.

That's who's buying the Slate 500. There is simply no other product out there that's as light, as powerful, and as reasonably-priced.

 

[marokero]

Why would I want to run Photoshop off a tablet? First it's severely underpowered for the task, then there isn't enough screen real-estate to work on images/video, let alone enough space for pallets. If one wants to run full programs (and actually be productive and not just play around), specially photo/video editing software, a netbook is bare minimum at best, if at all. A tablet is best suited for personal websurfing & gaming, scheduling, point of sale, medical charts, and other less processor intensive tasks.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]vant[/nom]LOL. 9000 orders. This is a massive FLOP.The iPad did 300k in ONE DAY. 10mil by end of 2010. 9000 orders 'scrambling to meet demand'? Don't make me laugh.Enterprise?"The company found that during the past eight months over 4,000 enterprises adopted the iPad and their deployments ranged from one iPad to over 1,000 devices in a single enterprise."It is very safe to say that the iPad easily sold more to enterprises than HP's entire order log.[/citation]
Those number were 8 months after the launch of the ipad.

 

[smeker]

Haters will hate.... Hey Vladislaus put another negative mark if that will make you feel better about your precious slate.

 

[vant]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Those number were 8 months after the launch of the ipad.[/citation]
I know. It's hard to believe. 300,000 iPads sold on launch day. But trust me, it is real. Look it up.

[citation][nom]talzara[/nom]There is a group of Tablet PC fanatics who realize that real tablets can run real applications, like Onenote and Photoshop. Apparently they never got the memo that running real applications is now old-fashioned, and that we're supposed to go around looking at HTML5 videos. They never got the memo that styluses were old-fashioned, and that we should all be finger-painting in Photoshop, or typing with on-screen keyboards.[/citation]

Apparently a group of Tablet PC users never figured out that a tablet is suited best for light duties such as web surfing, mobile gaming, and GPS. If I want to use real applications, I'll use a computer designed for it.

 

[talzara]

[citation][nom]vant[/nom]Apparently a group of Tablet PC users never figured out that a tablet is suited best for light duties such as web surfing, mobile gaming, and GPS. If I want to use real applications, I'll use a computer designed for it.[/citation]

Apparently a group of non-Tablet PC users never realized that there are things that are best done with a pen -- not a mouse, and certainly not a finger. Things like marking up PDFs. Sketching digital art. Learning to write Chinese with instant handwriting-recognition feedback. Taking handwritten notes in class, with the audio *synchronized* to the notes that you wrote, so you can *search* the ink and *playback* the lecture exactly at the point you need.

"A tablet is suited best for light duties" is a straw man. We're not running AutoCAD or CATIA or Premiere or After Effects or climate modeling. We're running Photoshop, Onenote, PDF Annotator, and Sketchbook. Things that run quite well on an Atom -- and work best with a stylus-based tablet.

 

[bv90andy]

SO they weren't hoping much with this... making only 5000 of them.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]smeker[/nom]Haters will hate.... Hey Vladislaus put another negative mark if that will make you feel better about your precious slate.[/citation]
I never give anyone negative or positive marks. If someone down rated your post please don't put the blame on me.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]vant[/nom]I know. It's hard to believe. 300,000 iPads sold on launch day. But trust me, it is real.[/citation] I never said that the iPad didn't sold 300000 units on launch day. Most of these units weren't bought by enterprises and this hp slate was made for enterprises only in mind. It's almost like comparing a workstation with a normal desktop and say the workstation is a failure because it sells less.

 

[smeker]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]I never said that the iPad didn't sold 300000 units on launch day. Most of these units weren't bought by enterprises and this hp slate was made for enterprises only in mind. It's almost like comparing a workstation with a normal desktop and say the workstation is a failure because it sells less.[/citation]
Absolutely not true.
Why would an enterprise buy a product that they can not get a future support for? HP will phase out the Win 7 slate with a Web OS slate.

These 5,000 units were part of the old project, so they might as well sell them...

 

[eddieroolz]

Just imagine if they had gone consumer on this one. They couldn've had 900,000 sales instead, you know.