Leadership Cobb

 It was just last year when Steve Ballmer showed off the tablet that would become known as HP’s Slate 500 tablet PC. It was a massive change of direction from where Windows-based tablets had been in the past, and a clear sign of the coming tablet wave. The Slate? That’s still around?Sources within HP admitted that the company was unprepared for the surge of interest customers had for the Windows tablet; many felt like HP only produced the device in order to keep their promise to Microsoft. the available stock reflected this ambiguity, as the tablet was a bit hard to come by for the first several months. Still, the enterprise interest in the Slate 500 was seen and heard loud and clear by the gang out in Palo Alto. Businesses like the idea of a sleek, lighter tablet, but they need something that supports their kind of lifestyle – for a large majority, an iPad or Android tablet would require massive reengineering of their workflows. With so much business interest in the device, it became clear to HP that the market had legs. To that end, HP just unveiled a follow-up tablet to the world: the HP Slate 2. At a glance, the device doesn’t look that much different from the original Slate 500. It has essentially the same dimensions, though this new model is three-hundredths of an inch thicker. It features the same 8.9-inch screen, offering users the WSVGA standard of 1024×600. It offers a capacitive multitouch response in addition to an N-trig digitizer, allowing for both finger and pen input. The most notable physical change comes with the rear

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