Laptop Thoughts: HP Slate To Morph Into Best Buy Rocketfish Tablet?

"Well, look at that. A Rocketfish tablet. Can't say we saw this coming, but Best Buy's CTO and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens, just tweeted two pics of the surprisingly polished-looking tablet. We're currently digging for more details but from what we can tell from the pics, the tablet looks remarkable similar to early HP Slate pics. Every seem and port seems to be the same right down to the (docking?) port on the bottom. Even if it's not built on the same platform, the screen sizes look about the same, placing the Rocketfish tablet in the 9-inch range."

Very interesting! Ever wonder what happens to a technology product that doesn't quite make the grade with the original concept/manufacturer? The Rocketfish branding is used by Best Buy for other hardware, so the tablet may be using Windows 7, or even webOS. Speculation is that the HP Slate 500 is destined to be the enterprise offering, so is this the consumer version? Back in early July 2010, Stephens also tweeted that HP was working on an Android tablet, so we'll just have to wait to learn more, if this does indeed turn out to be true. In any case, it appears that Best Buy will be a player in the nascent tablet market. What do you all think, does this sound plausible?