First look at the HP Slate 500, it's here! (updated w/ video)

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Snipping tool handy little tool.
Thanks

[lovelaptops]

NDRobinson

I love your idea, I just think the processor expectations are not there yet. As for the rest of your setup and jetissoning my main computer - I'm with you on that and hope to experiment over the holidays. My hesitation here is from practical experience - I truly use mine as an electronic yellow pad, so I want it available fro note taking at a moments notice, and not tied up background downloading a file from a client or in the middle of a major document revision.

The SSD in my SLT500 reports as a SATA device - it just ought to be the 256gb one that's in my HP 2730p. 4gb ram would be sweet - but I fear would be a real battery drain. As for dual core Pinetrail, I'll believe the performance when I see it - again another potential heat generating power robber.

Perhaps with the Slate 510 (or 520, 530?)

I think you have analyzed it perfectly. The always-available yellow pad is, to me, the single greatest contribution of the Slate. Now, of course you could make one of those with a very weak cpu and make it lighter and run a day or two on a charge, but I'm not suggesting the computer-like features are not extremely valuable, especially if you are traveling and need to keep things very light, or even just in a meeting and might need to access "real" programs. I have tried to use convertible tablet/PC's for the past year as ND Robinson suggests the Slate should evolve to, and the always-available yellow pad has suffered when I needed it and was otherwise in the middle of "real computing tasks" It only takes a few seconds to switch into One Note or even Journal, but it has limited my use of the tablet in place of anything I otherwise write on paper (except "real" letters!). I find that it serves me best when I am at my desk and using another computer and keeping my tablet/Pc in slate mode in Journal or switching to Sticky Notes. It's not wasting the computing power of, say, the HP 2740, because when I'm traveling I use it for everything, though I am more likely to type the notes to myself than to write them. I can see how it would be easier to switch formats if you only had "Slate Mode" because that's what the device IS, but then, I haven't come to terms with giving up my keyboard, so maybe that puts me in a different class. I mean, I do a lot of pen input and stylus note taking, but I won't even switch to a smart phone that doesn't have a keyboard with real keys. Not sure if I am being a Luddite here, or just practical. In my line of work (consulting) and personal style (verbose ) a keyboard is pretty important. I will get the HP Slate as soon as they are back in full production and you all are reporting relatively few functional problems, then we'll see what becomes of my collections of tablet PCs!

[lovelaptops]

Thanks I'll give that a try.

Bronsky

Maynard G. Krebbs! It's taken me all this time to figure out who your avatar is! Awesome. Haven't thought of Dobie Gillis in years, decades! Are you that old, or did a parent turn you on to Gilligan's former life?

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[QUOTE=dstrauss;208637]NDRobinson

I love your idea, I just think the processor expectations are not there yet. I noted in a n early review that the SLT500 "feels" as snappy as my last great Thinkpad - the x60s. General productivity applications can run just as well on it as they did in 2007; I just think things like C5S, Autocad, or Halo are asking to much of this little engine. As for the rest of your setup and jetissoning my main computer - I'm with you on that and hope to experiment over the holidays. My hesitation here is from practical experience - I truly use mine as an electronic yellow pad, so I want it available fro note taking at a moments notice, and not tied up background downloading a file from a client or in the middle of a major document revision.

The SSD in my SLT500 reports as a SATA device - it just ought to be the 256gb one that's in my HP 2730p. 4gb ram would be sweet - but I fear would be a real battery drain. As for dual core Pinetrail, I'll believe the performance when I see it - again another potential heat generating power robber.

Perhaps with the Slate 510 (or 520, 530?)[/QUOTE


If you're like me, you have more old computers, laptops, netbooks, parts, boards than you can trip over... but for my use, I just wanted a device that I could take to meetings, take notes at a conference table without being offensive to the other people, carry everwhere I went, internet search, use the One Note features, then get home, plug into the dock and keep working with dual screens on email, web, and media stuff. I found the TC1100 could do those things okay, but was too slow, so I went to the LE1700 and have been in bliss until now. Then the IPAD comes out with light weight and long battery life and cool media experience, but it can't do anything I want or function the way I work!!


Now I want it all again, a real computer with long battery life, thin as two quarters, super fast processor, multi-tasking, basic applications like one note, MS office, etc. I wouldn't expect the Slate 500 to run AutoCadd or high end graphics programs and, for productivity sake, would use a desktop for that. The Slate 500 is the only tablet so far I've seen with a pen that hopefully can do what I need. (I don't like convertibles).

[jgjackson]

Maynard G. Krebbs! It's taken me all this time to figure out who your avatar is! Awesome. Haven't thought of Dobie Gillis in years, decades! Are you that old, or did a parent turn you on to Gilligan's former life?

And all this time I thought he looked like a young Bob Denver. I never heard of the show. I guess they never brought it back to TVLand for some reason, or dd after I went over-the-air broadcast only. Evidently, the scooby doo crew are based off the Dobie Gillis characters.

[dstrauss]

And all this time I thought he looked like a young Bob Denver. I never heard of the show. I guess they never brought it back to TVLand for some reason, or dd after I went over-the-air broadcast only. Evidently, the scooby doo crew are based off the Dobie Gillis characters.

And you claim to be a "Senior Member" - you definitely lose that distinction. Dobie Gillis was iconic - a rip off of "Archie" and the precursor for Scooby Do. Bob Denver was the world's first beatnik/hippie; an icon!

[Bronsky]

My brother watched Dobie in its first run. He was old enough to watch American Bandstand as well (when Clark was in Philly). There's more than a few years between us (he flew helis in Nam and I was still in high school) so I got to see the show in re-run the new UHF channels that started in the 60's. It was one of the best TV shows ever made. I watched every show over-and-over. It warped me.

Since I was on the road to a long stint as a professional student, I completely related to Maynard's reaction to the word "work". Work! It was funny watching Dobie in the 60s as Denver was already doing his stint as Gilligan and the world depicted in Dobie had already vanished in the Psychedelic haze of the 1960s.

If Dobie was intended to be a take-off of Archie, they really messed up the Betty Veronica thing. I always thought Betty was as hot as Veronica, only cooler. Tuesday Weld and Zelda is clearly a mismatch.

Normally I would apoligize for the diversion from the thread topic but given the fact that the slate is not shipping, the entertainment helps break the tension.

Bronsky

[jgjackson]

And you claim to be a "Senior Member" - you definitely lose that distinction. Dobie Gillis was iconic - a rip off of "Archie" and the precursor for Scooby Do. Bob Denver was the world's first beatnik/hippie; an icon!

I made no such claim. That's what the TabletPCReview site calls me because I never filled in my own title.

[dstrauss]

...If Dobie was intended to be a take-off of Archie, they really messed up the Betty Veronica thing. I always thought Betty was as hot as Veronica, only cooler. Tuesday Weld and Zelda is clearly a mismatch...
Bronsky

Ginger or Mary Ann? (Most definitely the pigtails!)

[Bronsky]

Ginger or Mary Ann? (Most definitely the pigtails!)

As I always say about Betty and Veronica, I always dated Veronicas but married Betty. Would probably not have made the same choice with the Maryann/Ginger. Put pigtails on Bardot in her prime and Gilligan would have had a real choice to make.

My version of Betty. Now there's some pigtails for ya.

Bronsky