Slate and Courier both bite the dust today..

It seems that the iPad stands alone..

Both the MS Courier
gizmodo.com/5527442/microsoft-cancels-in...urier-tablet-project

and HP Slate
techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packar...ws-7-tablet-project/

HP states that poor windows 7 performance was a deciding issue...

Maybe they in part took their Que from Microsoft?

I don't expect Slate to be dead for long with the acquisition of Palm. I bet HP'll throw out a tablet with web-os in the distant future.

good point. we didnt cover that at work today.. with the change in OS it could be that a change in name was required..

Tablets have been around for a while.
Sure Apple has some amazing hardware, proprietary as it may be, but there are better products.

I advise anyone in the market for a tablet to do research on the specifications of each model and upcoming ones. Apple has a good product, no doubt, but you might be impressed by the near-silent competition.