Infomania.co.uk » PC http://www.infomania.co.uk Stuff you want to know Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:20:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Microsoft & HP pull the rug from under Apple’s iSlate http://www.infomania.co.uk/archives/378 http://www.infomania.co.uk/archives/378#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:12:11 +0000 admin http://www.infomania.co.uk/?p=378 Microsoft’s Steve Balmer demonstrated a new HP slate computer in his keynote speech at the annual CES in Las Vegas on Wednesday, neatly pre-empting Apple’s planned launch of a similar device later this month. The HP device had a 10″ screen and was claimed to support full multi-touch. Other manufacturers, incuding Archos, are reported to [...]]]> Microsoft’s Steve Balmer demonstrated a new HP slate computer in his keynote speech at the annual CES in Las Vegas on Wednesday, neatly pre-empting Apple’s planned launch of a similar device later this month. The HP device had a 10″ screen and was claimed to support full multi-touch. Other manufacturers, incuding Archos, are reported to be developing slate PCs.

Key questions about the Windows-based products will be their weight, cost and battery life. Running Windows 7 and ‘as powerful as a PC’ could it be that the devices are a bit over-specified for their own good?

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