The tablet takes advantage of Intel Bay Trail

Sep 26, 2014 08:22 GMT  ·  By

Yesterday we told you Lenovo was prepping a huge tablet with a 13-inch screen from its Yoga Android family, which can sit itself upright and look quite reminiscent of an AIO in the process.

Well, if 13-inch is not enough for you, there are other options you could turn to. HP already has the Slate 21 and Slate 21 Pro all-in-one desktops out on the market, but if you want something in the middle, you’d be glad to know the company is gearing up to introduce the HP Slate 17 soon.

HP's newest maxi-tablet takes advantage of Intel Celeron

But unlike the 21 models, which run on NVIDIA Tegra processors, the new HP Slate 17 will take advantage of an Intel Celeron N2807 Bay Trail processor.

The massive tablet showed up in benchmarks a while ago, but since then the device went underground and we moved on with our lives.

But now, the Slate 17 has now surfaced on the Peruvian HP official website, showing us the complete list of specs and few images detailing the upcoming product.

The device will come with a spacious 17-inch display taking advantage of full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels), the Bay Trail chip mentioned above fitted with 2GB of RAM and Android 4.4 KitKat.

The specification list is completed with HDMI out, USB 2.0 port, memory card reader, 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 720p webcam.

The Slate 17 might be considered heavy for a tablet

The Slate 17 weights around 5.4 pounds / 2.4 kg, so it’s quite big for a tablet but comparable to a laptop. It won’t be the lightest thing you have carried around, but it’s not impossible to do so far if you put your mind at it.

The massive tablet should be able to deliver a battery life of up to 5 hours when it’s not plugged in to a power source.

The device also appears in a product video which shows the device with two kickstands living on its back. One of them can be folded up and thus prop the Slate 17 into position like a desktop monitor. The smaller one, however, sits near the top of the gadget and you can use it to prop up the tablet on a desk, when you're watching a movie.

It appears the HP Slate 17 will make it out into the US in the upcoming weeks and will be marketed for $470 / €369 and up. We’ll keep an eye for the device when it arrives on the market.

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