The HP SLATE 2 Fire sale!

The HP SLATE 2 Fire sale!

After the coming of the iPad, well everything else tablet was put aside..

Androids came about and joined the fray to see which would reign. The tablet which started it all, the tablet PC was fast becoming a pathetic excuse for a tablet, and just sat on the sidelines, minding their pathetic existence.. Well i came across a firesale of the HP Slate 2 and it was just too good to resist. 

YES! YES! YES!

Before you start cursing me to be some dumb fellow, who bought rubbish in a fire sale, Yes , I agree

Dumb fellow, who doesn't realize he got a heavy computer with a lousy touchscreen, Yes

Dumb enough to spend money on a failed systed. Yes

Basically YES YES YES to all cusses and malicious intent.

I will not be reviewing the HP Slate 2 , Reviews are better found on the internet, so I will be telling you how life is after a day's ownership of the HP SLATE 2.

I'm not plugging this guy's sale but the firesale is still available here

I have always wanted a tablet I can just use to watch movies, read some PDFs, while I'm on the move, or even when I'm at home, and don't want to sit in the PC room... ie taking a dump...

IPads were irritating as they could never get onto the home network, even with 3rd party software, ie Video Stream it still could only stream at horrible quality, and would jerk in any other quality other than low.

Streaming PDFs from the network was a pain,  CBZ files were not streamable.. basically, old farts like me had to start a new life, with the iPads, as i couldn't access my files on my home servers..

Very simple solution, get a Tablet PC and just use that to stream movies, read the magazines etc..

Which idiot would want to spend anything more than what it would cost to buy an iPad?? IPads are great! why buy something less great than an iPad and spend more?

SO

This Fire Sale was amazing.

Paying less than half the retail price for a HP SLATE 2

If i'm not mistaken, the same thing happened for the HP SLATE 500. Got tossed into the fire sale as well.

Well.. from a day of use. Here's the take.

The damn tablet is bloody heavy. Feels twice as heavy as an iPad 2. Probably about the weight of the iPAD 1

Touchscreen is 70% as sensitive as an iPad.

Processor feels like its 100X slower than an iPad, but inreality, its just not quick enough to make things smooth

Hasn't hung yet, but things are not happening lightning fast eh.. bloody slow.

Its a little warm when running, but passable.

Battery life - err.. i'd put it as fair, and not iPad like, but the claim is 6 hours.

It connects to the home network like a BOSS!

So easy to connect, and yes! It plays all my movies flawlessly.

Reads my PDFs well, pinch and zoom works.

I can probably do my excel sheets.. (did i mention the resolution is 1024 x 600) 

Resolution is ok, 1024 is almost decent. (my current notebook runs 1440 x 900)
Scrolls with your finger pretty well, about 70% as well as an iPad.
Pinch and Zoom, half as well as an iPad, Well this is because its a PC, not an iPad.

One thing about a HP Tablet PC is that there is so much dignity in unboxing and owning something from HP.

Its got a good sized box, there's a leather cover for it, 

THere's a screensaver provided and a stylus as well (battery operated stylus)

The good thing here is that this is really going to be an extension of your work station , if you have a PC as a workstation.

You're not going to be able to work regularly off this machine, but if you would like to travel lighter, well, this is pretty nice.

You can actually read MS Office files, install pc programs, LOL, i just installed office via image drive on my server for the tablet.

The verdict - nice to buy if you have the money to burn in the fire sale.

Totally not worth the money if you have to buy it at full price. Save a while and go get an iPad instead or buy an android tablet if you like.

So this isn't the typical light weight, long batt life tablet,

and its the heavy, short battery life, non finger friendly variety type of tablet.