Well, they’ve succeeded in coming in at under $US630, but even so the €400 ($US542) price rumoured for the Slate is still too much when it’s coming up against the $US499 iPad.
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Adobe’s got a video out that proves the HP Slate can run Flash and AIR just fine, thankyouverymuch. To which we say: No kidding! It’s a Windows 7 device. What’s of some concern might be HP’s own marketing clip:
HP just popped a video of CTO Phil McKinney demonstrating the “slate” we showed you first at CES 2010. McKinney affirms that this is not just some will-o-the-wisp, but in doing so, might’ve taken away some of its allure.
Yesterday, we saw Dell’s Slate concept for the first time. Today, we got to actually play with it. And it’s called the Mini 5.
I’m pretty sure Dell’s slate (5-inch tablet) has an OLED screen. Plus it’s got a SIM slot along with a 5MP camera and what looks to be a built-in stand. Other than that, we couldn’t even touch it.
We know nothing about this “Slate Concept” by Dell, other than, you know, it looks like a 7-inch tablet. Press photos within.
It’s not Courier, but HP’s rumoured slate PC is here, now. Steve Ballmer and his hardware specialist Ryan Adsdorian just showed it off, and man is it cute. Updated with video.
Poking more at the info Apple secretly registered iSlate.com a couple years ago, TechCrunch found Apple’s possibly setup a shell company called Slate Computing, which has a trademark on “iSlate”, registered to Apple’s Senior Trademark Specialist Regina Porter, MacRumors discovered.
