In response to the iPad’s advertisement that was seen during this year’s Academy Awards, the Windows 7-based Slate was presented by playing full episodes of MTV’s “The City” and Flash games. It also shows how the Slate utilizes multi-touch pinch-to-zoom functions on its capacitive touchscreen display.

The Slate also has an enhanced desktop, adding a theme with large icons as well as letting users “star” their favorite shortcuts. It also has an additional menu bar on top of the screen and a floating keyboard that can be moved around the screen.

We still do not know about specifications, pricing, and release date of the Slate.

Apple-Laptop-Concept

Apples are in full swing with a tablet device manufacturers, analyst Matt Thornton in AVI Securities said in a note on Friday. Talking with a component supplier, he said the part has been in the supply chain for some time but that the final product is now in “full production” will be released soon. The iPhone’s designers should be planned to start final assembly in 2009 but experienced delays affecting some suppliers are expecting increased business.

No matter supply, demand for NAND flash memory may have been increased specifically to accommodate a large touch screen hardware, Thornton noted. Apple design is also expected to eat into the netbook market and consequently take the supply away from ordinary people to produce a netbook. One recent rumor has secured many Apple 10-inch display for himself at the expense of the people began to design a new computer.

As many as 10 million tablets can be built in the first year, according to financial experts.

Manufacturing at this stage will remain in sync with most newer rumors for Apple’s mystery product, which can be introduced at an event on January 27, but will not ship until March.

[via CNET]

HP dv4i Notebook Appears Quietly on Official Website

This is the mystery of why HP decided to not introduce Core I5-powered notebooks dv4i at CES 2010 but put it on the official store. Nevertheless, its features interesting enough will appear here.

The 14-inch HP dv4i work well with 2.4GHz Intel Core I5 520M or 540M processor 2.53GHz dual-core, it’s your choice. Either way, with the Turbo Boost feature can speed up the notebook up to 2.93GHz and 3.06GHz respectively. It also has up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 500GB hard disk, and 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 graphics chipset.

Design-wise, it makes all the glossy black case with a circular pattern that overlaps its predecessor. This also means he has to keep the chrome trackpad that some users are not too interested about.

Dv4i HP notebook is now available at the official store, with costs ranging from U.S. $ 799.