Comments on: Number 1 on my wishlist: HP’s slate device

By: Logic

Logic — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:24:55 +0000

@JP, I agree… at least they should add a click2flash function as an advanced setting. It amazes me how much battery life I can actually save, just by disabling Flash content by default with click2flash. So it’s useful indeed. (note, Flash player on Win devices uses less resources, but it’s still useful).

Anyways, when can I buy this HP slate thing!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:20:45 +0000

Thanks Serge,

Chambers article was very helpful – shows how my assumptions only get me into trouble – hehe I’m more educated now.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:09:15 +0000

@Adam,

AFAICT, that is just the background graphic, which of course can be changed. It’s the overall Windows UI graphic elements/design I find that hurts my eyes (coming from mac, of course. See my earlier comment for specifics items of offensiveness).

re: optional Flash content. Yes, click-to-flash is great, maybe essential for battery conservation. I’d just like to see something more officially supported from Adobe. Taking it a step further, perhaps including advanced settings where the plug can disable remote swf files, or maybe shut down swf that exceed a CPU / framerate limit. Lee B. said he floated an idea for a customized placement graphic instead of the blue lego.

By: Serge Jespers

Serge Jespers — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:36:54 +0000

@Tom: You should read Mike Chambers’ post on this subject: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/02/22/flash-player-content-mouse-events-and-touch-input/

When you use your fingers to click on a button, that is also just a MouseEvent.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:56:07 +0000

@JP, Chuck Anderson is the one who designed Windows 7′s default background. http://gizmodo.com/5395720/ask-the-artist-how-windows-7s-iconic-home-screen-evolved
You may have seen his work on many high end design projects. However, Windows 7 can be personalized to a very high degree and includes some other very impressive themes as well. The over sized buttons are important for over sized fingers to press. And yes it is very easy to turn off Flash ads either with an add-on or simply by disabling the Flash plug-in… just like you would in any other computer.

@Pieter Of course the HP Tablet will have great PDF support. Just install Adobe Acrobat Pro or any other PDF viewer. You can also install the Kindle eBook reader if you want some other ebooks… or an ePub viewer for even more.

@Serge I have the TouchSmart TM2 on order, which has the capacitive multitouch of the TX2 except with a Wacom digitizer built in for great pressure sensitive drawing in Adobe CS. I heard Adobe pressure support never came to the N-Trig screen on the TX2. The TM2 I hope will be a good replacement to my old tx2000, which only had single touch plus the Wacom. I hope your TX2 came with the Windows 7 Touch Pack for showing off the multi-touch in the Surface Globe application!