Concrete details regarding HP's fabled Slate PC are a little thin on the ground, but there's no shortage of rumours.
Following a high-profile unveiling back at CES in January, the handheld iPad alternative was rumoured to be launching in Europe as soon as September, priced from €400.
For that tidy sum, consumers were said to be getting a tablet device armed with an Intel Atom processor and Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system.
All sounded a wee bit promising until HP then reportedly pulled the plug on the project back in April.
We thought we'd seen the end of the Windows-based HP Slate, and HP's acquisition of Palm suggested that a webOS alternative would take its place.
Apparently not, as a device dubbed the HP Slate 500 has now made its debut on HP's own product pages.
According to the site, the 8.9in device is exactly what we'd expected; it features two cameras and runs both Microsoft's Windows 7 Home Premium and HP's own touch-friendly software. Judging by the associated Energy Star certification, the device comes equipped with a basic single-core 1.6GHz processor.
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