HP (Re-)Announces a 14" Android Laptop

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PC Mag reports that an upcoming laptop from HP (one that was prematurely announced in April (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2148469/hp-slatebook-14-takes-another-stab-at-the-android-laptop.html), and now official (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458814,00.asp)) has decent-to-good specs — under 4 pounds, battery life more than 8 hours, Tegra processor, and a 1928x1080 touch screen — but an unusual operating system, at least for a laptop. The SlateBook 14 will run Android, rather than Windows (or ChromeOS, for that matter), which helps keep it relatively cheap, at $400. According to the article, Android is "a lot cheaper for HP to implement in a laptop; ChromeOS, in contrast, comes with more stringent system requirements that would cost HP a bit more." Ars Technica's mention in April (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/android-laptops-leaked-hp-slatebook-14-runs-google-os-on-a-tegra-soc/)includes a screenshot taken from a video (note: video itself appears to be disabled) which shows the keyboard layout and which reveals some Android-specific changes. Update: 06/01 19:23 GMT by T (http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/) : Here's an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnwd6GSVR8.

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