{"id":548361,"date":"2010-04-30T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/04\/30\/rumor-hp-slate-dropped-due-to-windows-7-issues\/"},"modified":"2010-04-30T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:55:00","slug":"rumor-hp-slate-dropped-due-to-windows-7-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548361","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: HP Slate dropped due to Windows 7 issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/4\/102603-HP_Slate.jpg\" alt=\"HP Slate\" width=\"496\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to sources, HP has ditched the Slate, their much-hyped tablet PC.&nbsp; Announced at CES in January, the device was expected to launch mid-year, but was reportedly halted due to sluggish performance by Windows 7.&nbsp; What&#8217;s more, rumors are swirling around about HP using non-Intel processors for their upcoming tablet devices, effectively pushing Windows 7 to the sidelines.&nbsp; Given HP&#8217;s purchase of Palm earlier in the week, the strategy makes sense.&nbsp; Now that the company has a bona fide operating system of its own, I see webOS as key in the company&#8217;s smartphone\/tablet strategy going forward (along with their <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/01\/07\/hp-slate-android\/\" >current plans<\/a> with Android).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re waiting to hear back from HP on the matter, so stay tuned.&nbsp; In the meantime, check out the preview video below.&nbsp; Given the big HP\/Palm news this week, are you gunning for a webOS-powered tablet?&nbsp; Discuss!<\/p>\n<p>{Widget type=&#8221;youtube&#8221; id=&#8221;IIIjTDnX2Y0&amp;&#8221; }<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/04\/30\/hp-slate-killed-rumor-mill-says-yes\/\" >Engadget<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/29\/hewlett-packard-to-kill-windows-7-tablet-project\/\" >TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3BSW39rRhehLJmYezmhlDn_q-hM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3BSW39rRhehLJmYezmhlDn_q-hM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3BSW39rRhehLJmYezmhlDn_q-hM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3BSW39rRhehLJmYezmhlDn_q-hM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/s-C44-m5zdI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to sources, HP has ditched the Slate, their much-hyped tablet PC.&nbsp; Announced at CES in January, the device was expected to launch mid-year, but was reportedly halted due to sluggish performance by Windows 7.&nbsp; What&#8217;s more, rumors are swirling around about HP using non-Intel processors for their upcoming tablet devices, effectively pushing Windows 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}