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It's all about priorities: The most brilliant design on the HP Slate
You've got to hand it to the geniuses at HP, Microsoft and Intel. With so much riding on the HP Slate introduction—iPad breathing down their necks, last gasp for windows-based tablets—the designers busted their asses and found a way to get stickers on the hardware just like their ugly PC counterparts. Kudos, guys.
Meanwhile, I guess some company's designers are just lazy.
HP Slate is 'meh'
[Conecti.ca's] conclusion? "The official verdict is meh." Yeah, ouch. Apparently the Slate's biggest strength is also its greatest weakness -- it's essentially a touchscreen netbook, and that means that while it can run everything including Flash, it can be "slow and annoying.
Can this possibly be a surprise to anyone not in denial? These doofus Windows tablet devices are netbooks with the keyboard snapped off. Using a desktop OS not only too bloated to run well on their relatively slow processors, but unable to fully realize the experience of a touch UI.
The old ones sucked. The new ones suck. Future ones are gonna suck.
Bill Gates said you can't just build a new OS for tablets, but he was wrong. It was wrong about tablets eight years ago, and it's still wrong today. It's actually sad to see a company like HP follow a path that a decade of devices has proved time and again is... wrong.
Another Pointless Monstrosity: The PC Industry Never Fails to Amaze
Let's take a cheap laptop (aka "netbook"), flatten it, and use an "optimized" bloated desktop OS with a processor barely powerful enough to run it. Then let's sell it for more than the iPad. We'll claim it's "better" because it has every port from the last decade, and hope people don't notice the thickness, size, weight, and lack of battery life.
This "Ezy Tablet PC" is the embodiment of everything the PC industry gets wrong. not only in design, but in their thinking about what's allegedly wrong with Apple's hardware.
IDC Idiocy: Apple iPad is Not a Tablet PC
Although Apple's iPad could find success, its shipments won't count in IDC's Tablet PC numbers since it doesn't run a full operating system.
Remember when the iPhone hit the scene, and attempts were made to define "smartphone" so it wouldn't be included? Well, now "tablet PC" is being defined as well.
This is nonsense. Aside from varying definitions on what a "full" operating system is, I'd argue that, as a touch device, a "real" tablet PC must have an OS designed for touch from Day 1. Therefore, "optimized" Windows machines need not apply.
Whatever. The only way for PC makers to avoid being embarrassed by Apple's runaway success is to try defining Apple out of the picture.
I'm usually wary of articles claiming to be "the straight scoop"...
The PC-or-Mac debate has been raging for more than a quarter-century, but making sense of it requires considering the situation as it stands at one moment in time.
Harry McCracken on PC vs. Mac. Though broad in scope, it's one of the few articles I've read claiming no bias that manages to more or less pull it off.
Though Windows 7 Taskbar Is Weak, You Can Put Folders On It.
VMWare Fusion 3.0 Is Here: Upgrade So Far Is Painless.
Noticed it available, upgraded from 2.0 and downloaded it online ($40). Took about 15 minutes to download.
Ars Technica Windows 7 Review
So while Windows 7 may not right all of Vista's wrongs, it is absolutely superior to its predecessor. It has three years of improvements, so it can't help but be better. But if you hated Vista's UI, you're going to hate Windows 7's. Worse, in fact, because 7 forces you to use the new Start menu and taskbar, with no possibility of reverting to the old behaviour. If your applications didn't work in Vista, they almost certainly won't work in 7. Sure, 7 has some virtualization tools to help, but this was always possible in Vista too. If you felt Vista was too big and too slow, well, 7 isn't going to provide much joy there, either. Marginal improvements, perhaps, but nothing more.
The above quote, from the closing summary, sure doesn't sound impressive. Still, the entire review (it's long and detailed) is positive overall.
The reviewer thinks Vista got a bad rap. Even though he agrees Windows 7 is actually "Vista R2", he likes it a lot.
