HP Slate 500

After only two days of having my HP Slate 500 in my hand I will go on record and say this is the beginning of a beautiful thing.  I have a close relationship with my IPad1, then my IPad2, and up to this point anticipated the release of IPad3, but in the two days I’ve had my Slate, my iPad has only been used by the kids to play games.  Being in the business world I rely on most business things; Email, 4-5 websites, and general usage.  The Slate has given me this plus keeping it in a Windows7 environment we are all used to.

In my opinion there are a few tweaks that need to happen before it will become the iPad killer but the concept of having a full Windows7 Professional experience on something the size of my iPad will change things.  I can see the day that we laughed at having keyboards attached to our monitors and called them laptops.  I can see our children laughing at us because we used to have a pointing device in our hand to drag around the screen, I can even see the day where needing to 10 finger type is a crazy thought.  The screen is a bit smaller and not as brilliant as the iPad, but it will do EVERYTHING my pc will do not just what Apple says I can do.  The lack of a built in air card is a drag, but it is first generation so I’ll deal with the USB adapter for now.  Yes I said USB adapter, plus it has a SD slot so I can add up to 32gb extra storage on top of the 64gb internal. I would add a 64gb SD card, but who can afford those, but that is ok for me since everything is in the cloud anyway.  Final though, yes it’s first generation, but I would still purchase one before I bought a laptop.  It is PERFECT for college students who’s life is about social interaction with a dash of a professional PC experience for papers and research.

Wait,  I forgot about the camera’s, it has front and rear facing for all you face timers.  There are many more things I forgot, needless to say, this changes everything and I can’t wait to see what comes next.

Disagree, want to leave a comment, go for it, I like push back.

Oh one more thing, instead of raising the debt ceiling the government should stop all it’s testing and development on the iPad and just use the HP slate, you’ve already done all the testing to make a Windows experience secure, save my tax dollars and just use what works, that will cause some conversation.

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  Matt August 5, 2011 at 4:53 pm

  As I tap away this comment with windows phone 7 I can only agree.
  A full blown OS of any sort on a tablet would suffice. Thanks alot Dale now I’m gonna have to buy me one of those. I can’t count the money spent by my current employer trying make Apple products work in our environment. All we needed was the Slate!

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  woody August 31, 2011 at 3:24 am

  I love my slate—it saddens me there is so little development, credible websites surrounding it (see sundry fake youtube giveaway videos from goo.gle). I’ve owned 2 archos 9 and the extent of developers was vast and exciting, with new drivers, etc

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