HP nearly doubles expected Slate 500 sales according to report

By on Nov 16, 2010 at 1:23 AM
Retail November 16, 2010

The good news for HP, if a new rumor has any basis in reality, is that it apparently smashed its HP Slate 500 sales goals. The bad news is those expectations were seemingly quite low. HP’s Slate 500, which launched less than one month ago, is now backordered on the company’s website. According to rumors, HP had a limited run of 5,000 units ahead of launch last month. It then went on to sell a reported 9,000 units. Of course 9,000 units pales in comparison to sales of Apple’s iPad, the tablet by which all others are measured (regardless of how ridiculous comparisons might be). Last quarter, Apple sold over 46,000 iPads each day. On the other hand, selling 9,000 units of a product that sits squarely in a market that doesn’t yet exist is pretty impressive. The need for business tablets — much like the need for consumer tablets — is a need that manufacturers are doing their best to invent. The increasing flood of tablet offerings suggests they may succeed, and HP’s small victory so far with the Slate 500 certainly bodes well.

Read

Tags:
, , , , , , , , , , , ,
8 Comments

Related Articles

  • http://twitter.com/RockNStuff Manuel Contreras

    That’s awesome. Hopefully, the Slate taught HP how to build a tablet; no second chances for the PalmPad!

  • Anonymous

    Haven’t they been trying to invent the business tablet since 2002? From what I keep reading, businesses are all adopting the so-called consumer tablet.

  • Anonymous

    Now HP needs to confuse their customer set by bringing out a competing tablet that doesn’t run Windows.

    Not.

  • TheNewReign

    I think Apple ships that many every five hours or so.

  • Ceeaser28

    yeah people pleeeeese read, and get out the box. Why do you thin HP is number 1, and Apple isnt. This has been said a million times this is not a consumer product and therefore is not to try to compete or compate the IPAD. Wrong market, why do you think you will prob not see these in stores. Even BG gets it a little bit, yes 5K to just businesses was there goal, and its a very good thing that business are picking these up. Now the Palm Pad next year running Webos will be that ipad competitor for consumers, and believe me its that much better then a ipad, and wont be a bust like a samsung android tablet, or a playbook smh.

  • Anonymous

    Say whatever they want, I ain’t spending $800 for a netbook

  • http://twitter.com/SonsofAres Sons of Ares

    It’s 2010; isn’t the true difference between “consumer” tablets and “business” tablets ultimately just one of software?

    If your business just used BlackBerry devices, then suddenly people were bringing in their iPhones where sys admins need to create space for it, then haven’t the demarcations between these (marketing invented) categories blurred to the point where it depends on apps that accomplish what the business needs, rather than strictly devices with the terms “consumer” and “business” on the package?

    One cannot deny a business market exists for specific things. But insisting that the HP Slate is a “business tablet” (read real) just seems a bit…quaint.

  • Jmd Mep

    …omly 9000! Hmm, if this was an automotive,…it would be considered a total failure! But! Since it’s not an automobile, it’s still a total failure!

    JMD

blog comments powered by Disqus