Summary+of+Experience+with+HP+Slate+500

Overall my experience with the HP Slate 500 was very good. The pen was quite responsive, and I enjoyed the benefits of using a full Windows 7 operating system. However, there were some drawbacks as well. The screen size was fairly small, the screen has glare unlike paper or a screen like that found on the Amazon Kindle, bootup times and background operations are more irritating than that found on the iPad/iPhone or Android devices, and the specs of the device were too low to play high def videos or the OnLive gaming service smoothly. After the initial period of using the device, I found that I never touched it. I look forward to possible future devices that have many of the benefits of the HP Slate 500, but also improve upon it's faults. I know that there are more expensive higher end slates that exist right now that have better specs, but these devices would still suffer from the glare traditionally encountered with any LCD screen, particularly screens which lie on a table facing directly towards overhead lights.