HP is updating its Windows 7 tablet with a faster solid state disk and a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor. It’s been just over a year since the HP Slate 500 launched, so it’s about time for an update. If you feel like you haven’t heard much about this tablet over the last year though, that’s not…

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More than 10 months after an HP Slate PC was shown off on stage at CES in January, the company is finally ready to bring its Windows 7 Slate to market. It’s just not the consumer oriented iPad killer many people had been expecting. Instead, at $799, HP is positioning the HP Slate 500 as a business oriented tablet. The…

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A few days ago YouTube users x313xkillax posted a video showing off the as-yet-unreleased HP Slate running Windows 7. He didn’t really explain how he came by the tablet, but it looks like it could be the real deal. Now he’s followed up with a second video which features a look at the packaging, and docking station with HDMI output,…

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HP has been working on an 8.9 inch Windows slate PC since at least January, when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed one off on stage at CES. Since then, the tablet has run into a few speedbumps. First, HP acquired Palm and a lot of attention got focused on the company’s upcoming Slate computers running WebOS. Then we discovered that…

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Wondering why almost every major PC maker has announced plans to bring a tablet computer to market soon? It’s not just because it’s an emerging product category representing a huge source of untapped revenue. It’s also because companies fear that if they don’t have a tablet to offer, they’ll lose money since tablet computers may be eating into notebook sales….

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If you’ve been holding out hope that HP would launch a tablet running Palm’s WebOS software before the end of the year, Engadget has some dream-crushing news. HP officials are reportedly telling employees that the upcoming WebOS tablet — which may or may not be called the PalmPad — will be out in the first quarter of 2011. I suppose…

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Best Buy’s Rocketfish brand is basically filled with rebranded electronics made by other companies. Now it looks like the company is preparing to launch a Rocketfish tablet, which the folks at CrunchGear note looks awfully similar to the HP Slate. But while the HP Slate will run either Windows 7 or WebOS… or maybe both, Best Buy CTO Robert Stephens…

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While we’re waiting for HP to launch a slate PC running WebOS, Windows 7, or pretty much anything but Android, a new product has shown up at the FCC which looks an awful lot like… and HP slate of some sort. It’s called the HP eStation Zeen, and that’s virtually all we know for certian at the moment. There’s no…

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HP has announced that it will launch a series of Windows 7 tablets this fall. But while the HP Slate had originally been designed as a consumer oriented device, it looks like HP is now targeting the HP Slate 500 as a device for enterprise customers. There are still no details on the specs or exactly when this fall the…

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OK, we know that HP is working on a tablet computer running the Palm WebOS operating system. So what’s up with that HP Slate 500 tablet that was spotted on the HP web site yesterday? You know, the one running Windows 7? Didn’t HP kill off its Windows 7 tablet plans months ago? Well it turns out that HP is…

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While the blogosphere’s attention has been turned toward the upcoming WebOS Slate from HP, it looks like the company might be getting ready to launch a Windows 7 powered tablet. A device called the HP Slate 500 has started appearing on some HP web sites. There aren’t a lot of details, but here’s what we know about the HP Slate…

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HP is working on a tablet. We know that. It will probably use a version of the Palm WebOS operating system. We’re pretty sure we know that too. What we don’t know is what HP will call the thing… although a recent FCC filing may shed some light on the matter. MyHPMini notes that HP has filed for a US…

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