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Hp 'slate 8' Windows Tablet Details Surface

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 01:46 PM

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 03:24 PM

This is 'big' news baby....I believe that there are room for more than one pad/ tablet....

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 03:35 PM

HP is coming back!!! Got rid of the mouse " Leo" and the company is going to go up, up and zoom. Seriously just look at the products for x86 they got the Gen-8 machines which no one has anything like that for storage they got 3 PAR if they market it right it should kick but I am telling you I have been in this industry for 30 years and never seen so much innovation, IBM is just marketing, HP is meat and bones.

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 03:35 PM

If HP makes a tablets that looks exactly like that, it will certainly sell especially running Windows.

Me hopes that isn't and ARM version. I would certainly love one with i3 or i5 and even i7 if it was possible since there is no active cooling.

The sucker is sharp.

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 03:37 PM

cbgrenn00, on 27 April 2012 - 03:24 PM, said:

This is 'big' news baby....I believe that there are room for more than one pad/ tablet....

Of course there is more room and that design could be a trend setter for other OEM's like :Dell.
Lenovo should bring back that tablet hybrid they had and have both pieces run Windows. Have the tablet part run Windows 8 on ARM and when attached to the base it runs the full desktop version. That would be sweeter than sweet.

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 05:47 PM

I for one hope that HP will finally jump on the tablet wagon. I also remember that HP had a great tablet that they killed because the software wasn't developed enough for it. Hummmm

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 05:48 PM

I for one hope that HP will finally jump on the tablet wagon. I also remember that HP had a great tablet that they killed because the software wasn't developed enough for it. Hummmm

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 09:45 PM

I don't believe that an x86 based tablet running full Win 8 will get anywhere close to 10 hours of battery life.

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Posted 28 April 2012 - 06:57 AM

i wish HP will play the great role for business people and medical resident to make

1.i5 or great processor
2. 500 GB HDD
3. 8 GB RAM
4. touch and pen
5. HD webcam - 2
6. 10-13 inch Gorzilla glass
7. HDMI + USB 3.0
8. 10 hours battery !!!
9. extra docking keyboard
10. wimax + 3G
11. retina display
12. upgrading as per technology etc.
Then no one can challenge its marketing for > 25 years.

waiting eagerly................

If anyone HP staff, viewing this comment, plz pass to your CEO.

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Posted 28 April 2012 - 11:54 AM

QUADICON, on 27 April 2012 - 03:35 PM, said:

I will most likely run the Atom Clover Trail in order to push battery life out to 8-10 hours. The latest gen Atom chips have substantially improved graphics and the Clover Trail W chip will most like run at 1.6-8 Ghz, dual core.

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Posted 28 April 2012 - 01:01 PM

If this thing does any better than the tablets that went before it. I see more hype in this story than in any Apple story before it. Simply put, as a combined package it is bluntly impossible--for now.

Let's first start with the choice of the OS: Windows 8. Ok, in general that's not a bad idea at all; Win8 carries both the Metro interface and the selectable conventional desktop. The problem is, you can't run Metro and desktop apps side-by-side--so you can run one or the other at any time, but not both.

Second, the size: They're claiming 8 to 10 hours of battery life on a device thinner than the iPad. In itself that isn't impossible, but to garner that kind of battery savings you have to sacrifice something and that's either in processing power or speed. Either way, it's going to try to offer 2012 capability with 1992 performance. Either that, or it won't even come close to the kind of battery life they tout.

Lastly, there's the issue of software. Up to now there quite literally is no touch-centric software for Windows available outside of what HP and Microsoft themselves have created--and both of them are still stuck in the desktop world. What good is touch when the radio buttons you have to reach are almost too tiny to hit accurately. Keyboarding on a touch display will be no easier than it is on any current tablet or phone, and once you connect a keyboard to it, well, it's no longer a tablet, is it?

Yet again we see somebody trying to move forward with yesterday's ideas--ideas that have already failed 11 times over. Eventually such a tool may be possible, but at the moment I don't see this thing as offering any real competition to the iPad but may further cannibalize PC laptop sales as it tries.

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Posted 28 April 2012 - 01:17 PM

allmailbox, on 28 April 2012 - 06:57 AM, said:

Nice dream, but I think you'll have to wait at least 2 more years to get even close to all that. Especially something in a package as thin as this.

And I don't care what brand you care to name--even Apple.

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Posted 28 April 2012 - 06:26 PM

Did anyone notice the name is just one letter short of "is late"? ... Late to the tablet wars, late to the tablet frenzy, late to the tablet multi-million market!!!

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Posted 28 April 2012 - 10:55 PM

Win8 x86 tablets were expected to be launched anyway.

But OEMs should look to use atom based processors to keep the cost and power consumption down instead of ivy bridge.

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Posted 30 April 2012 - 07:38 AM

QUADICON, on 27 April 2012 - 03:35 PM, said:

The report says it'll be x86-based. I imagine most business-centric Win8 tablets will be, at least until there's a critical mass of Metro-style apps. Hopefully Clover Trail is up for the job.

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Posted 29 June 2012 - 03:32 PM

CarlosTavaresSr, on 28 April 2012 - 06:26 PM, said:

Did anyone notice the name is just one letter short of "is late"? ... Late to the tablet wars, late to the tablet frenzy, late to the tablet multi-million market!!!

Except the market for enterprise is likely in the hundreds of millions - if not Billion - dollar range. When money gets tight, consumers stop buying stuff. Businesses don't necessarily stall new tech acquisitions though.

Think about it - that enterprise market is large enough to support the likes of Dell, HP, IBM and now Microsoft. And enterprise is a Windows world, which keys in beautifully with the x86/64 tablet concept.

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Posted 03 August 2012 - 06:59 AM

Rmanuu00, on 27 April 2012 - 03:35 PM, said:

Sorry but HP will make the same mistakes it always has, dive in, try to make it too proprietary (they will find something), over-invest and screw up the opportunity of making a good business name in a very profitable market. What was their tablet called again? Not trying to be overly sarcastic but they've made mistake after mistake.