HP slate 500 is now here and it costs 799$! According to HP, "HP State 500 is the ideal PC for professionals who don't usually work at a traditional desk, yet need to stay productive in a secure, Familiar Windows environment. It is also intended for those who use custom application built for Windows".
HP slate 500 is considered the competitor of iPad. Even before iPad was officially announced, HP was showing off a prototype tablet on stage at CES 2010. Since then, the company and its slate have been in and out of public view, offering up videos, followed by rumors of delays and OS changes, further complicated by the company's merger with Palm.
At long last, an actual HP tablet is being officially released--but it may not be exactly what you'd expect. The HP Slate 500 Tablet PC is a 9-inch Windows 7 slate, aimed at business and industrial users, rather than casual consumers. In fact, it seems to be exactly the same product we obtained a series of leaked photos of several weeks ago, right down to the leather case and docking stand.
As HP had said before, it comes with Windows 7 and is aimed at corporate customers.
Specifications:
it weighs just 1.5 pounds, has an 8.9-inch multitouch display and two cameras, and it takes input from a stylus, which they're calling the HP Slate Digital Pen.
More specifically, the 8.9-inch LED-backlit display sports a 1,024x600-pixel resolution. The 500 comes with Windows 7 Professional installed, a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor, and a 64GB solid-state drive. Also inside: an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500, a combination stereo headphone-microphone jack, a VGA (video graphics array) front-facing Webcam, a 3-megapixel camera on the back, Bluetooth connectivity, and 802.11b/g/n wireless connectivity.
Input devices include an optional keyboard and optical mouse, as well as the HP Slate Digital Pen. The tablet also comes with Evernote, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Acrobat built in, along with some HP-branded software.
Source: CNET.com
