HP Slate canned?

[Chrysantine]

http://www.neowin.net/news/hp-slate-cancelled


Today has not been good to tablet devices. After Microsoft announces the end of their Courier project, TechCrunch reveals that sources close to HP are now saying that their upcoming HP Slate has also been canned.

First announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer earlier this year at CES 2010, the HP Slate was intended to run Windows 7 with a capacitive multi-touch display in a compact slate form factor. Insider sources now reveal that HP was not entirely satisfied with the OS and decided to cancel the product. What exactly they were unsatisfied with is unknown, though early speculation reasons that unsatisfactory battery life and user experience issues could have played a leading role.
It seems Windows wasn't quite as versatile on the tablet as they had hoped - however, with the Palm acquisition shall we see a WebOS based Linux tablet from HP?

[Giant Speck]

You've got to be kidding me!

[andras artois]

How could this be!? An operating system intended for regular computers not being suitable for a touchscreen tablet?!!

How surprising.

[P4man]

Not sure if the problem wasnt more the price and battery consumption of the atom (they could have released the slate with any other OS after all), but either way, looks like its ARM + linux (or iphoneOS) all the way for tablets. Is there any other atom based or windows based tablet on the horizon?

[andras artois]

Not sure if the problem wasnt more the price and battery consumption of the atom (they could have released the slate with any other OS after all), but either way, looks like its ARM + linux (or iphoneOS) all the way for tablets. Is there any other atom based or windows based tablet on the horizon?

This (http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/hanvon-suffers-the-tablet-curse-delays-multitouch-b10-talks-up/) uses an Atom processor as well.

Windows 7 was probably eating way too much power. Compare a full operating system like Windows to one thats designed for portable machines such as Android and it'll be pretty obvious the full operating system will use more power.

It also seems like they'll probably use PalmOS on it instead or something similar because of them recently buying Palm.

[kilosan]

ive seen some windows7 touchscreen laptop-tablet in some tech shows. and no matter how they hype it, it seems irresponsive. i can even see the sales tech guy is having problems like trying to press harder for it to react.