I just found out that, with a little bit of a struggle they could've put in a 4-cell battery. Hell, they could've easily placed a 3-cell battery ... but instead HP opted (cost reasons?) for a 2-cell battery that totals 30W.
That's appauling, I now a lot of cheap Tablet PCs do this, but come on this is HP (a large electronics company) and the price is quite expensive. They say it has ~5hs, engadget got some hands on with it and they made the product seems positive.

There is also a review for the Tega V2 which boasts similar specs yet with similar flaws.

Also, engadget finally got their hands on the EXO-PC. This was the hope of all tablets running Windows 7 (or a desktop Linux mind you) and ... The review was neutral. Great for a Tablet PC but not so great as a tablet. Apparently an update is due to fix the many bugs it currently has.

So I got pondering.

What if HP designed the HP tablet 500 for

• one of the sides to come out like the HTC Legend so that the battery could slide out. That would be sweet.
• Also if the battery was a 4-cell, it just makes things sweeter (7hr/decent battery life).
• Also, they should have stuffed in a 720p screen instead of a 600p.

Then ... I'm sure there would be several developers (from the millions) that will extract the "Connect Four" UX (or skin/program) from the Exo-PC and made it run on the HP tablet 500.

With the best from both worlds, it would've been really interesting to see how it would've fared against the iPad. Infact, if it was like that I wouldn't have mind paying the high $800 price.

And it would've also been cool seeing how people could've gotten Ubuntu, UbuntuNetbookRemix, Fedora, Moblin, MeeGo or another distro optimized on it.