Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer recently released an HP tablet at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which appeared to resemble the Apple iPad and boasted of Windows 7.

HP termed the tablet was named as the Consumer Notebook Slate. The Slate 500 has now been released, and comes as new HP’s marketing device.

The officials of the PC maker added that the Slate was not meant to be a consumer device. The displayed printed materials were meant for the retail, insurance, hospitality, health care, and education industries.

HP has clearly has been not on his words and is not meant to take on the iPad with this device. HP claims that the windows 7 is not meant to serve the touch screen OS users.

The Slate hardware is not the best to sport Windows 7 however it has a control-alt-delete button which comes easy for all.

The latest HP Consumer Slate will soon be released. The hints come after the purchase of Palm, the manufacturer of WebOS—an operating system aimed to craft from the ground aiding touch. The OS comes with the Palm Pre, but HP aims to offer in the next version of Slate.