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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 5143276" data-attributes="member: 151">Well, s<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/hp-slate-to-cost-549-have-1-6ghz-atom-z530-5-hour-battery/" target="_blank">pecs just dropped on the Slate</a>, per Engadget.  Decent, but I don't think it's going to be enough to fulfill the title of "iPad Killer".  Only 5 hours of battery life is going to be an achilles heel.  Running Windows 7 with 1GB of RAM on an Atom processor may not provide the speed of the iPhone OS on the iPad, though I'm sure it will be decent for most casual tasks.  The iPad has gotten marks for being fairly fast at its tasks...it remains to be seen how well the Slate will perform.  It looks like a good piece of hardware, but I'm not seeing it stealing a huge chunk of the iPad's market share.  Especially since it comes in around the same price point as the least expensive iPad and has no 3G options by itself.  Also, the lack of speakers seems pretty odd, when they're showing the use of skype video in the ad.I think a large part of the problem is that many are looking at the iPad as a laptop replacement, when at best it's a netbook replacement.  Great for a specific set of tasks.  Just like I don't consider my iPhone to be a replacement for a real laptop or even netbook...but for e-mail, facebook, twitter, youtube, wikipedia access, online store browsing, gps maps and most web browsing tasks, it's become my platform of choice.</blockquote>

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