HP Slate: Likely Two Versions

July 22, 2010

Speak­ing at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech con­fer­ence, Todd Bradley, HP Personal Systems Group VP shared that the company’s Slate tablet will be “more customer-specific than broadly deployed.” The Windows-based Slate will be “for the enter­prise” launched in the fall.

My guess? Two Slates. One very capa­ble with lots and lots of ports for the enter­prise with pos­si­bly an addi­tional ruggedi­zed ver­sion com­pet­ing against Panasonic in ver­ti­cal mar­kets. The other Slate would be con­sumer focused, very pretty, with less ports.

I would also like to see one cus­tomized for kids that have fea­tures from both enter­prise and con­sumer ver­sion: rugged, very light, and light on the wal­let. Source: Engadget