HP's Slate To Be Replaced By WebOS Tablet?

itwbennett writes "Last week the rumor mill was rumbling about the demise of HP's Slate. 'This past weekend brought fresh rumors to the surface,' writes blogger Peter Smith. 'Now the insiders are saying that the Slate will be reborn as the HP Hurricane, and it will run WebOS. That makes perfect sense given HP's recent purchase of Palm and HP's declaration that they were 'doubling down on WebOS.' More surprising is the rumored launch date of Q3 of this year, which seems like a pretty fast turn-around. Particularly so if HP ditches the Atom and goes with an ARM processor, which Electronista suggests it would have to do.'"

Re:HP Hurricane?

[Yvan256]

Maybe they plan on getting the Knight Sabers to sing a theme song for their product.

Maybe you can help me.

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been hearing a lot about tablets lately. There are so many to choose from, but they are also very expensive. You sound like you know a lot about tablets, so maybe you can help me out. Why should I spend a lot of money buying a tablet from Apple or HP, when instead I could just reach into my toilet bowl and grab something hand-held that's just as shitty, but at a very small fraction of the cost?

Re:HP Hurricane?

[Renderer of Evil]

In their defense, Dell had already secured the name to Gulf Oil Spill Tablet. It was either Hurricane or HP Malaria.

Re:Maybe you can help me.

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to mention that what comes out of your toilet would look just like Ubuntu, and work about as well. Oh, and it comes with embedded corn by default. So it's a win-win.

Re:Dear HP

[medcalf]

I'm just amused at the image of the business meeting where that would be proposed. I had a director once whose reaction would have been: "That's very interesting, out-of-the-box thinking. Now get back in the box!"

Re:Maybe you can help me.

[jmac_the_man]

Oh, and it comes with embedded corn by default.

It's called a microkernel.

Re:HP Hurricane?

[ThrowAwaySociety]

Could they pick a tackier or more insensitive name?

It's part of a theme that HP has going on. Their line of high-end servers was called Superdome [wikipedia.org]

Re:Meh

[GilliamOS]

It's a damn tablet! Not every bloody piece of technology is supposed to be able to have something to do with Linux. You want Linux on your tablet? Too bad, go buy a Netbook. You Linux users get right on my nerves most of the time: 'Is this microwave open standards compliant?' 'Is this toaster open source?' 'Does anybody know where I can get a Linux compatible table lamp?' 'Has anyone tried installing Linux on an alarm clock?' I tells you it never ends!

Obligatory

[iluvcapra]

It's just a big Palm Pre? What a ripoff! /sarcastic