HP launches Android Laptop, the HP Slatebook 14 – Renaissance of the Dual-Boot Live OS Switching to balance Mobile and Desktop

HP (Hewlett-Packard) has decided to launch a 14” Laptop that runs on Google Android called the HP Slatebook 14, totally shocking Microsoft and catching them off-guard as stated in HP said to ready Android laptop, following Chromebook push, published April 28, 2014 6:32 PM PD by Brooke Crothers, CNET News and “HP Slatebook 14 takes another stab at the Android laptop”, published Apr 28, 2014 7:24 AM by Jared Newman, PC World.

The original report of this beauty appeared in “HP SLATEBOOK 14, ANDROIDBOOK FULL HD CON TEGRA”, published 27 Apr 14 by Laura Benedetti, Notebook Italia, which should give those Italian speakers among my readership a chance to practices reading and watching videos in Italian!

The Specs for the HP Slatebook 14 as listed in the article “HP’s SlateBook PC isn’t a “PC,” it’s a 14-inch Android laptop”, published APR. 28, 2014 - 6:18 AM PDT by Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM are shown below:

1.      Processor: Quad-core Nvidia chip

2.      RAM: 2 GB

3.      Internal Memory: 16 GB

4.      USB ports: 3

5.      Ports: MicroSD card slot, HDMI output

6.      Audio: Beats Audio Speakers

The specs of this new Laptop are irrelevant, merely the concept i.e. a Laptop that runs on Android, very similar to their first Android Laptop/Tablet Hybrid, the US$479 HP Slatebook x2 that made its debut in August 2013 as described in my blog article entitled “Hewlett Packard debuts US$479 HP Slatebook x2 in August 2013 - HP has stopped living in The Spectacular Now and accepts Tablets have killed Printers”.

Here’s the video in halting Italian!

Thus it won’t be too long before HP releases a Laptop that runs on Windows OS, Android OS and Google Chrome OS, effectively a Tri-Booting Live-OS Laptop! The pent-up demand is certainly there, based on traffic to my blog article entitled “Microsoft and Google kill US$599 Asus Transformer Duet TD300 - One Love Kickstarter Project for Developers and Hardware Modders to Breathe life into The Art of the Steal” suggesting someone Kickstart the idea of a Laptop that can SWACT (Switch of Activity) between the different OS running simultaneously on one Laptop or Computer!

Very possible, a solution may soon come from the corporate, possibly Lenovo or even HP, seeing as how HP’s been making mostly Chromebooks of late, the most recent being the US$279 HP Chromebook 11  as described in my blog article entitled “US$279 HP Chromebook 11 with stylings mimicking the Google Chromebook Pixel - Low-end Laptop with high-end specs and sub-US$300 pricing is a great Christmas present for Millennials”.

HP Android Laptop – Renaissance of the Dual-Boot Live OS Switching to balance Mobile and Desktop

Google Chrome is already hurting Microsoft financially, as many PC makers are opting to use Google Chrome OS to the point that Microsoft has had to reduce their license fees for Microsoft Windows as stated in my blog article entitled “Microsoft cuts cost of Windows 8 Licensing by 70% - Low cost Windows 8 Tablets coming as Microsoft is now Walking with the Enemy, Google OS”.

They may soon have to start reducing the licensing cost on Windows Phone OS, as Google Android is now slowly making headway into the PC realm.

The first was the stalled US$599 Asus Transformer Duet TD300 that runs both Android OS and Microsoft Windows and can switch between them in real time as described in my blog article entitled “US$599 Asus Transformer Duet TD300 to launch at the end of March 2014 - Dual-OS Tablet Hybrid is the Muppets Most Wanted that gives the Best of Both Worlds, Hannah Montana Style”.

This was a project neither Google or Microsoft supported as stated in my blog article entitled “Microsoft and Google kill US$599 Asus Transformer Duet TD300 - One Love Kickstarter Project for Developers and Hardware Modders to Breathe life into The Art of the Steal”, which resulted in it getting the kibosh but possibly being revived at a later date by Kickstarters.

Now that HP’s making an Android Laptop, Devices running Multiple Live-hot swappable OS such as Google Android, Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome may not be so difficult to make anymore. This as with many people lives revolving around Mobile Computing yet needing the Processing power of a good ‘ole fashioned Laptop, spoiling customer with such choice was only inevitable.

Microsoft may now have to start looking into either lowering the price on their Microsoft Surface Tablets to make them sell more, lowering the License on Windows Phone Mobile or making Cheaper Tablets that are packing Windows 8.1 or Windows Phone Mobile.

Stay tuned for more from Hewlett-Packard, as we can’t count this plucky Printer Maker out quite yet!