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HP drops Windows 7 from 'Slate' tablet, will use WebOS variant
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article published on 2 May, 2010
Less than a week after computer maker HP agreed to purchase the struggling smartphone maker Palm $1.2 billion in cash, sources are noting that it will be removing Windows 7 from the Slate tablet, instead choosing to use a WebOS variant, arguably the best smartphone operating system available.
Sources say HP was not happy with the overall performance of Windows 7 on their unreleased tablet, ... [ read the full article ]
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5. May 2010 @ 00:08 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
WebOS is not open or secure...and Android is. That is the problem with WebOS...it may not be trash, but it is not as good as Android. If HP wants to make palm into a viable company, the first thing they need to do is to drop WebOS and go to Android.
As for the tablets, these are intended to be computers, NOT PHONES! Provide a real OS, and if it goes slow, then take measures to fix it. Knowing HP, their testing was probably full of bloatware, spyware, and terrible software from Norton...thus the short battery life. I have an old HP laptop that only gets about 1 hour battery life when fresh from a restore from the included recovery DVDs...yet it gets almost 3 hours with a trimmed-n-tweeked win7 install. Funny how well it works when you don't have 2 competing virus scanners plus an indexer, all using the hard drive all the time.
wait, you want android on a tablet, yes theys a phone OS.
and why exactly would you saay its not open, nor secure? yes there was a video a while back showing insecurities but that came out after palm had patched it all up. and no the talets arnt intended to be computers, they are intended to be browsing machines, if you want a PC get a netbook with a touch screen.
what makes you say its not as good as android?
and any person who is worth their tech knowlege always, if they buy a laptop, will reinstall a fresh OS. all companies come with crap on their systems, though im not trying to defend HP. i perosnally cant stand HP, their customer service is beyond disgusting, but its not just them with the bloated OS's.
Palm is a viable company, they have been for around 13 years.... HP just need to inject cash and let palm do what they have been doing.
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5. May 2010 @ 00:10 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
WebOS is not open or secure...and Android is. That is the problem with WebOS...it may not be trash, but it is not as good as Android. If HP wants to make palm into a viable company, the first thing they need to do is to drop WebOS and go to Android.
As for the tablets, these are intended to be computers, NOT PHONES! Provide a real OS, and if it goes slow, then take measures to fix it. Knowing HP, their testing was probably full of bloatware, spyware, and terrible software from Norton...thus the short battery life. I have an old HP laptop that only gets about 1 hour battery life when fresh from a restore from the included recovery DVDs...yet it gets almost 3 hours with a trimmed-n-tweeked win7 install. Funny how well it works when you don't have 2 competing virus scanners plus an indexer, all using the hard drive all the time.
wait, you want android on a tablet, yes theys a phone OS.
and why exactly would you saay its not open, nor secure? yes there was a video a while back showing insecurities but that came out after palm had patched it all up. and no the talets arnt intended to be computers, they are intended to be browsing machines, if you want a PC get a netbook with a touch screen.
what makes you say its not as good as android?
and any person who is worth their tech knowlege always, if they buy a laptop, will reinstall a fresh OS. all companies come with crap on their systems, though im not trying to defend HP. i perosnally cant stand HP, their customer service is beyond disgusting, but its not just them with the bloated OS's.
Palm is a viable company, they have been for around 13 years.... HP just need to inject cash and let palm do what they have been doing.
MGR (Micro Gaming Rig) .|. Intel Q6600 @ 3.45GHz .|. Asus P35 P5K-E/WiFi .|. 4GB 1066MHz Geil Black Dragon RAM .|. Samsung F60 SSD .|. Corsair H50-1 Cooler .|. Sapphire 4870 512MB .|. Lian Li PC-A70B .|. Be Queit P7 Dark Power Pro 850W PSU .|. 24" 1920x1200 DGM (MVA Panel) .|. 24" 1920x1080 Dell (TN Panel) .|.
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5. May 2010 @ 02:09 |
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Originally posted by jam_k:
Whoa, @Memnock did you call that or what back at that last article.
So how you feel now? Still looking forward to it? What do you see as the big advantage of WebOS over Win7? (Besides better power performance anyway).
-JamK
Ha. Yes I'm looking forward to it. I had a Palm Pre for a few months and really liked the WebOS. I just hated the phone. WebOS on a nice slate would be really slick. I used full Windows tablet PCs before and they sucked. Windows is not suited for a full touch interface. Plus these slates don't have fast enough processors to run Windows 7 well.
I like the iPad's ease of use and it overall snappiness. I like being to view pages
and books on nice big touch color touch screen. However, no multitasking, no USB ports, no ability to use as mass storage, and lack of flash are big negatives for me. I think a well done HP Slate with WebOS would bring a lot of what's nice about the iPad without all the negatives.
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5. May 2010 @ 08:44 |
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Originally posted by Josipher:
despite the obvious loss of win7 i actually tihnk this is a great move. if they can make the variant of WebOS less power demanding and achieve plausible battery life of at least 8 hours than maybe,just maybe, it will be woth buying!
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5. May 2010 @ 08:56 |
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I think one of the problems here is that people posting are posting from a geek standpoint. HP want to sell the slate by the truckload and that means selling to ordinary Joes who don't know webos and andriod from a hole in the ground. Of course, they DO know Windows and that's why it wouldn have sold.
Battery life schmattery life. Like a notebook, there are few occasions when you need 10 hours life. I believe , if HP do cancel the Win7 slate they are fools.
And as for anyone who thinks Win 7 can't be used on a touchscreen, I went and had a go on the HP TM2 yesterday in a store just to check that out and had no problem at all with it. By the time HP manage to get a webOS tablet out there'll already be plenty of competition.
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