Hewlett-Packard certainly hopes to be a player. Just a couple of days after the iPad shipped, HP posted a video to show off its upcoming slate device, likely to come out later this year. It’s the same device that Steve Ballmer held up during his Consumer Electronics Show keynote, which means that, for better or worse, it will run Windows 7. That’s a good thing when it comes to compatibility with lots of software, but possibly a bad thing when it comes to performance and battery life.
Last week, Engadget posted what it says is an internal HP presentation comparing its Slate with the iPad. If true, the Slate will have an 8.9-inch screen, with “5+ hours” of battery life (compared with 10 hours for the iPad). But unlike the iPad, it will have a USB port, an SD card reader and a Webcam. The 32-gigabyte version is expected to cost $549, which is $50 more than Apple’s entry-level 16GB iPad and $50 less than the 32GB iPad.
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