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How is booting in 30 seconds is bad? If it boots in 30, how long will it take to power on when hibernated? I can't remember the last time I powered down any of my computers, with the exception of updates or installs that required a restart.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDalRBjyJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIIjTDnX2Y0
Looks pretty custom to me. At some point HP ratcheted things back. My guess would be cost overruns (but again, just a guess).
Even if it was just an overlay more suited to touch input with Windows under the hood, it would have been better. We've tried the Windows Tablet Edition before and it didn't work - seemed like everybody was agreed on that (and I guess HP missed the memo). This is just another of the old tablets with more horsepower.
From a UI standpoint, the OS assumes mouse and keyboard input. Nothing wrong with that - interface designers have to make some kind of assumptions, but using a mouse/keyboard paradigm on a tablet is simply a recipe for disaster.
The problem isn't so much that it doesn't work - you could write a report or send an email or whatever - but that it doesn't do anything better. Mobile productivity? Buy a netbook. Casual movies or web surfing? Buy an Android or iOS device.
Edit: I thought this thing was supposed to run WebOS. Isn't that what HP bought Palm for?
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It is now believed that HP will make both Windows 7 and WebOS tablets, then market the former to the enterprise market and the latter to the consumer market
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Looks like I was wrong. It does do something better than other devices: let's you provide forward thinking tablet technology to employees while playing nice with corporate IT policies. Of course the people who are forced to use these will probably hate them after a couple months...
And if you're still sold on a Windows 7 tablet, maybe check out the Nav9 instead:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/09/23...dows-7-tablet/
or with a UI layer, the ExoPC:
http://www.exopc.com/en/exopc-slate.php