Unless it's a non-tablet PC slate like the Asus Eee Note or something, I'm not sure what they can bring to the table with a slate. Maybe they have something revolutionary up their sleeve, but it would kind of have to be given that tablet PCs are a niche, possibly oversaturated, market and don't sell in high volumes anyway.

Hubby and I were talking about alternate form factors that might be interesting, and he asked what I thought about a double-sided slate. (So imagine the EE or PE in permanent folded back mode). Conceivably, if you back to back the screens you can make the whole thing thinner by having more permanent space in which to house components. The only real advantage, though, is to only need 1 device instead of two. You can't look at both screens at the same time (he wondered how many people did use the two simultaneously) and I know I would often use the eink side as a notepad while browsing.

So if they're doing something funky like that with a slate, I'd be interested to see what they come up with. But I'm not sure I could see them creating something I'd pay more for than I did for the pre-ordered EE, and now that there are two tablet PC slates due out both under $999 (Fujitsu Q550 is priced at $729-ish, the Motion has super specs and shouldn't be more than a couple of hundred more at most), I don't know that they'll have room to compete in the $500 - $1000 tablet PC slate category unless they have something we've never seen before, like screen changing from LCD to e-ink at the press of a button or something.