Whilst there has been a lot of media hype about Apple’s iPad and the development of the HP Slate, there are actually many other manufacturers of tablet PCs worth checking out for price, quality and functionality.

Have you seen the Amazon Kindle?  Its an e-book developed by Amazon.com. Actually most of the big PC manufacturers have got in on the tablet PC manufacturing.  Booklet PCs, e-books, notebooks, slates, iPads… whatever you call them, they are becoming as common as the laptop or regular PC. Continue Reading

To answer the question on the article “Applications for Magazines on Tablet PCs”, about whether tablet PCs are suitable for online games like poker.  I don’t see why any of the proposed tablet PCs couldn’t be used to play online games.  In fact the mobility could really enhance your gaming experience, as you can move to the couch and be more comfortable.  The nice big screen should be able to display all the game’s functions.

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Some of the large printing & publishing companies are working on applications to have their printed magazines go digital and become available on tablet PCs.  Whether this will make any difference to sales volumes of magazines remains to be seen.  Applications are already available for iPhones, its just being taken one step further.  The bigger screen on iTablets will make it more user friendly. Continue Reading

So which do you think will be the better tablet PC, Apple’s iPad or HP’s Slate?

Which one would you buy?  Vote in our online poll on our sidebar and let us know what you think.

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Just as Apple CEO Steve Jobs was about to unveil the iPad, Hewlett-Packard snuck in first with an interview of their CTO Phil McKinney, talking about the HP Slate, developed jointly with Microsoft.  Although HP did not say when the Slate tablet PC would be ready, he did say they had delayed producing it to ensure the price was affordable.

The iPad looks impressive, not sure that I would like to haul around, what is essentially a large iPhone.  The iPad will be available in March, not too long too wait.  Check out the video of Steve Jobs going through the functions of the iPad.