HP Slate 500 surfaces on HP’s site

We can\’t say we know exactly what\’s occurring here, however does appear that the HP Slate still lives in all its Windows 7 (and Intel Atom) glory. Yep, the blokes at IDG News spotted the nice ol\’ 8.9-inch HP Slate — now apparently the Slate 500 — hanging out on a rather hidden HP.com page. The small print are few and far between, but they do seem to coincide with all that we originally had heard concerning the tablet — it runs Windows 7 Home Premium, has \” exclusive\” HP software and two cameras. And that\’s not all, the chaps at IDG also noticed that the Slate 500 was Energy Star certified, and an inventory for an analogous product on Energy Star\’s site confirms that it’ll have a 1.6GHz processor. That too seems to line up with what we had heard in regards to the Slate having a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 CPU. We know, it\’s all somewhat surreal considering we just got word yesterday that HP had filed an indicator on the term PalmPad, and we figured the Slate could have seen its day. There\’s no telling what is going to happen next, nonetheless it sure is asking like a HP Win 7 and WebOS tablet could live in harmony.