Having used a SL8 Slate extensively while stuck on various trains yesterday, first impressions are:
Thin, light and with proper connectivity
- Great for accessing content
- Ability to rotate between portrait and landscape is really useful
- Better performance than expected
- Light enough to carry and use
- Slips easily inside an A4 folder
- Runs all the standard apps fine
- Some weaknesses around data input
- The onscreen keyboard is weaker than the ones with iPad or Android
- We are planning to evaluate pen input further, but the handwriting recognition using a fingertip is impressive
- Some Windows application check boxes etc need to be bigger to aid entry
- Wireless tethering to an Android phone works very well and may negate the need for the 3G option in many cases
