At the time I was buying I learned that it was being replaced by the Tm2. The HP Touchsmart Tx2 (and how I learn to dislike everything HP!)
The newer HP Slate 2 is just an enhancement of the 500, and is a full Tablet PC. However the HP Slate 500 is not a tablet, is a full Tablet PC run exclusively by touch screen interaction. And they also do Tablets, like the TouchPad (now a thing of the past!). They do Tablet PCs, like the Tx2, Tm2, Elite Tablet PC and so for.
Lenovo has the x200t and now the x220t Tablet PC, and planned to reveal an Ideapad Tablet PC slate (it did in Android format) and we keep waiting.įor example, take a manufacturer like HP. Neither are the Android tablets.Įxamples of full blown Tablet PCs which ran from Windows XP Tablet PC to Windows 7 are: HP Compaq TX series which became the HP TX2 series and the Slate series, Fujitsu Lifebook Tablets T300 T400 up to T700 series, Toshiba Satellite and Portege Tablets -disappeared-, Dell Latitude XT -discontinued- and XT2 -apparently discontinued too- and recent ST2 -which does not come up yet. So the next time one asks you if the iPad is a full blown computer, say NO, because it is not, it is a nice gadget, period.
Tablet devices or gadgets, like the iPad, are finger or stylus touch enabled devices that use an embedded microcode operating system such as those found in PDAs, Pocket PCs and cell phones, such that they do not support full feature microcomputer operating systems, like OSX, Linux or Win7.Tablet PC, like the Tx2 and Tm2 from HP, is a full computing device operated as a laptop or by a touch screen, or just a touch screen, intended to run general PC operating systems (generally Windows’s based) with pen, stylus or touch-enable access and/or applications.Please, be clear: iPad are not Tablet PCs, they are just tablets. I am refering here to Tablet PCs, tablets will be discussed in another section. Here I should point out one reality of sort. Who remembers the Transmeta project run in part by the same guy who put together the first Linux core, Linus Torvalds? The Tablet with the Crusoe chip never took off, sorry to say.
Time passed and screen became smaller but with the same price tag, like the Portege Tablet. Soon came Tablet PC from Toshiba, with a 15-in screen, and I was tempted to replace my Satellite for a Tablet PC, but at a price tag of nearly $2k I had to say not yet.