Digital Home Thoughts: HP Slate Shows Off Its Ability To Run Flash

"It shouldn't be any surprise that the HP Slate supports Flash, since it runs Windows 7, but we've seen so little of the device since Steve Ballmer first waved it around at CES that we're still totally intrigued by this video from Adobe showing it in action. Yep, there it is, playing video, running casual Flash games, and using AIR applications."

HP just released another video of their forthcoming Slate device, demonstrating its ability to use Flash. This looks like a serious competitor to the iPad in the slate form factor market. HP says that the Flash support will use hardware acceleration so it should be able to handle streaming HD from Youtube and Hulu. It runs Windows 7 so it should support multitasking. It was demoed running the Kindle application so you will have access to the largest ebook marketplace. Only time will tell if it can be a serious competitor to the iPad, but it certainly has a lot of the features that the iPad will lack.