Windows 7 "Slate 500" Appears on HP's Website
Windows 7 "Slate 500" Appears on HP's Website
Posted 07/21/2010 at 7:08am
| by Paul Lilly
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HP's Windows 7-based Slate is dead and buried, right? That's what we thought too, but if the project is truly dead, HP didn't bury it very deep. Some astute grave diggers over at IDG News dug up what we used to know as the HP Slate and now dubbed "Slate 500."
Perhaps HP just hasn't gotten around to updating its website yet, but if you go here and scroll down, you'll see several HP Slate 500 models about halfway down the page (we counted eight different SKUs). And that isn't the only place the Slate 500 appears. Apparently the thing's been Energy Star certified (see here).
Falling in line with earlier speculation about the hardware, the Windows 7-based Slate 500 is listed as an 8.9-inch tablet sporting an Intel processor clocked at 1.6GHz, 1GB of system memory, and both a front-facing and rear-mounted camera.
We'll update this as we find out more, but if this was a Myth Busters episode, we'd have to label the chances of the Slate 500 and recently announced PalmPad co-existing as "plausible."
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Bender2000
July 21, 2010 at 9:58am
Were there links for the Blackbird or Firebird or Omen, or even anything Voodoo related? What happened to all the Vodoo stuff? Did they discover the graveyard section of the HP website? HP and vaporware are getting synonomous. I'm tiring of it.
Caboose
July 21, 2010 at 9:34am
I can't wait for some more system specs, and to see Win7 "tablet edition" in full swing
-- Sent from my Desktop running Windows 7 64bit
someone87
July 21, 2010 at 7:46am
This is very good news for those who see tablets as a great new way to compute, but aren't willing to pay a high price for a marginal functioning iPad.
I was very disappointed when HP canceled the original Slate project, the assumed Palm tablet sounded OK, but I would still prefer Win 7.
Can't wait to learn more about the new "500", and count down to the release date.
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