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Thursday, January 7, 2010

The HP Slate Device

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home News" @ 10:40 AM

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/the-hp-slate/

Engadget has a brief post about the forthcoming HP slate - notice how "slate" is the buzz-word this year at CES - but no one knows much about it yet. HP didn't have it out for display at the press conference event I attended last night (yeah, I'm at CES!), but we know that it's going to be running Windows. The question, as always, is how well can Windows 7 work on a small-screen device? Windows doesn't have a very flexible UI - there are assumptions about the screen size of the device being a certain size, and once you get below the 9 inch range, you start to get into problems being able to hit touch targets. Windows 7 is the best of all Microsoft OS' in terms of having reasonably-sized UI elements - the new taskbar area for instance has nice, big icons. Windows isn't designed for touch though, so how well will a device like this work? What do you think?

Tags: hp, ces 2010, hp slate

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