The HP Slate is what’s known as a tablet computer. Tablet computers are unique from other computers, such as desktops or laptops because they only have a single way for you, as the user and owner of the computer, to interact with them. Most computers use a keyboard and a mouse. The mouse moves the cursor and basically acts as the navigation tool. The keyboard types in the information. With the free HP Slate the touchscreen serves as the mouse instead of an actual mouse. For example, if you were to want to go to my computer you would just tap on the screen where “My Computer” is located. No more moving the mouse and then clicking. The two motions are combined in one with the free Slate. When you need to type in something, such as for typing up reports or to search something online you do so through a virtual keyboard. Usually keyboards are big clunky pieces of equipment that are connected to a computer through either a cord or through some type of wireless connection, be it Bluetooth or just an RF signal. The virtual keyboard on the HP Slate free is basically when the bottom half of the screen is a keyboard. Rather than having a physical keyboard you have part of the screen to type on.
Virtual keyboards present one major difficult. The typing speeds on a virtual keyboard will never be quite as fast as typing speeds on a normal keyboard. Here’s why. When you type on a physical keyboard the edges of your keys are purposely placed so that your fingers can feel where exactly you hit the key. When you hit a key and feel say, the right half of the key you know that your finger is too far off on the right. So you adjust your fingers and hopefully when you hit that same key again your fingers are in the right place. You don’t do this consciously but rather your body does it for you. Physical feedback attained from typing on a physical keyboard is extremely important for fast typing speeds. With a virtual keyboard you obviously don’t get any amount of the feel you get from a real keyboard.
This isn’t an issue for some users of tablets because for the most part, tablets are designed to present and read things rather than do the actual reading and or making. For example, Adobe Reader on HP Slate free makes it so you can view all of your pdf files. Pdf files are convenient for businesses to use because they let you present whatever it is you’re trying to present in an easy and good looking way. The Slate can also read just about anything else, whether it is through Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and even Microsoft Powerpoint. Plus, if you want to type something up you can always hook up a keyboard to the built in USB 2.0 slot or, if you prefer wireless, you can use the Bluetooth that is built in.
Source by Ricky Bobby
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