Marking it here in this thread. As in years past, Slate/Tablet PCs are going to be a failure this year, but perhaps on a spectacular level. All the new stuff shown and announced at CES? Headed for the pooper.

If Apple announces such a product, which I'm still not sure of, they'll do something (whatever it is) to redefine their segment and will likely make it (again, whatever it is) a success. So they're excluded from the above CES-related future failures.

And I firmly believe that Steve Balmer's only reason for using term "Slate" and showing off the HP tablet during the keynote was due to the rumors surrounding Apple and the "iSlate" domain name.