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Well it looks like HP is trying to take on the Ipad. This image from Engadget compares the two as they are configured right now.

The new HP Slate is going to offer a smaller screen 8.9 in. as compared to the IPad’s 9.7. I’m willing to bet the Slate will not be able to keep up with the IPad’s touch responsiveness at this point.

As far as storage the Slate looks like it is in the lead. It will hit the market with two options 32, or 64 gb options, as well as being upgradable via the SD card reader. I would like to have seen some kind of a reader on the IPad to dump images or video’s from a camera, without having to buy a dongle. I thought we were actually over the dongle day’s long ago. More after the jump.

IPad is going to kill the Slate in the connections department. 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, and the optional 3g have already owned slate.

Here is where I believe the Slate is going to fall apart. Say what you will about Apple, but the OS has been extremely stable. Slate is going after the Windows 7 crowd and I just don’t see it as a true contender with the Ipad. From all the reports that I have read so far I have not heard a single person complain about the Ipad having to reboot. Compare these results to the issues plaguing Windows 7 today, and the choice is clear.

There have been many rants and raves about Apple locking down the OS so you have to go through ITunes to get all of your software, but if you look at the stability of the Iphone OS it’s a no brainer why it’s been so rock solid.

I must admit that it would be nice to have a USB port built into the Ipad. Other than mobile me there is really no way to sync things from the Ipad to your desktop, and vise versa. When the 3g hits I’m really going to be looking forward for someone to bridge this gap and make something that will allow you to share docs, or sync your files remotely. (Other than good apps)

It’s going to be interesting to see the Slate when it hits, and I will definitely be keeping an eye on the slate, but I really don’t see it being able to keep up with the Ipad.

**UPDATE** April 30, 2010

Engadget is reporting that HP’s Slate tablet may be killed. Check out the full story here.

Internet video Hulu will start charging customer for their services. How the hell are they not generating revenue with all the forced ads?

What they should do is leave it the same and give a premium option with no ads. Netflix kicks the crap out of Hulu with their on-demand movies and $11 blue ray’s. Chalk this move up to the freaking lame category.

It’s hard to decide who are the biggest morons in this story: parents or daughter. 15 year-old Alexa Longueira was walking along Victory Boulevard in Staten Island when she fell into an open manhole.

Why didn’t she see it? You’re ahead of me here. She was too intent on tapping out a text message to notice the gaping gap in the sidewalk and just dropped straight on in. Idiotic, yes, but now Alexa’s parents are trying to blame someone else for their daughter’s stupidity while making a little money into the bargain. They’re suing the city.

So now it’s appearently the city’s fault that she was not freaking paying any attention. Lable me silly here, but how is the city supposed to make her not text and walk at the same time. I can’t stand the fact that she will probably win this trial. It pisses me off that someone so stupid is allowed to use the system for mere stupidity.

I have just learned that TV pitchman Billy Mays has passed away in his Florida home. He was found by his wife and pronounced dead at 7:45 by emergency workers.

Mays apparently was aboard a U.S. Airways flight that made a rough landing on Saturday afternoon when it blew out its front tires.

“All of a sudden as we hit you know it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping,” Mays reportedly told Tampa Bay’s Fox affiliate. “It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head.”

The Mays family is requesting that people give them some privacy during this time.

On a personal note I actually liked watching this guy, he was crazy full of energy and was entertaining at 3 AM. It’s a damn shame he’s gone. I just hope like hell the ShamWow guy doesn’t try to take over, that guy is so damn annoying.

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