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earlier this year HP launched a pair of high-end Android tablets designed for the business user the HP s pro Slate 12 and his little brother the HP pro slavery Congress in Barcelona we're going in for a closer look first up the big guy this is the HP pro se 12 and as the name suggests it has a 12 inch display as you can see it's actually in a four by three aspect ratio which apparently makes it more akin to using a piece of paper now it's got a higher than HD resolution so all the apps and icons do seem pretty sharp it's running on Android 4.4 KitKat not at the latest 5 version 5 lollipop it's a bit of a shame but of course it can be updated as time goes on now as you can see it does have quite a premium look it has this silverback which sure not exactly stylish but it's exactly the sort of thing you can imagine pulling out of a business suitcase in a boardroom meeting it has these front-facing speakers as well which makes it quite reminiscent of HTC's one smartphone inside it's running on a quad-core Qualcomm processor has clocked at 2.3 gigahertz so that should be plenty of power to keep everything running along nicely now an interesting addition is a stylus with this which allows you to not only handwrite your notes on the screen but actually use it as a pen on regular paper and it will track the movement and automatically transfer that to the slate now the little version as well the 8 inch model has exactly the same feature so you can get that depending on whatever size you want to go for and here's a smaller model lavishes has an 8 inch screen which has a 2048 by 1536 pixel resolution so again that is higher than Full HD and it does show because you can see their icons and text do look really crisp as I similarly designed to the big one with the same metal edging and the front-facing speakers now this does come with this case actually which apart from keeping it nice and safe when you're walking around does also come with a good old fashioned notebook as well it shows most of its internal specs with the Big Brother as well including Android 4.4 KitKat software and the 2.3 gigahertz quad-core processor so it's really just down to which screen size you want so the 8 inch model here retails for 379 euros now that translates to 425 dollars based on direct conversion the 12-inch bottle hey which I am struggling to hold now costs 529 euros or 593 dollars and they are both on sale now I'm Andrew Hoyle for C net and this is the HP Proust eight eight and this is the HP Proust 812