Back before the CTL 2Go PC convertible tablet or the Asus Eee PC T91 were even a twinkle in our eyes, Gigabyte release the M912 convertible tablet. While the machine’s a bit expensive to be considered a netbook, with a price tag around $799, the Gigabyte M912 has an 8.9 inch 1280 x 768 or 1024 x 600 pixel touchscreen…
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You know that browser-centric operating system that Good OS introduced yesterday? While it’s not available for consumers yet, Good OS did show off gOS Cloud at the Netbook World Summit in Paris, and Sascha from Eee PC News was there to speak with Good OS CEO David Liu. You can read Sascha’s thoughts at his blog (English translation), or you…
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Good OS, the makers of the gOS, Ubuntu Linux-based operating system are showcasing a new version of their product called gOS Cloud. I’ve written more about it at Download Squad. But in a nutshell, the idea is that the operating system is designed around the web browser. In fact, you can load the web browser within a few seconds of…
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With a starting price of around $700, the Gigabyte M912 is already one of the most expensive mini-laptops I’d be willing to call a netbook. But if you’re looking for something a bit more extravagent looking, why not pick up a Gigabyte M912x Goldenrod edition? As the name would suggest, this version of Gigabyte’s mini-tablet notebook is painted a gold…
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Gigabyte isn’t exactly new to the netbook game. The company released a mini-laptop with an 8.9 inch screen this summer that happens to be one of the only netbooks with a tablet-style touchscreen. The Gigabyte M912 also happens to be one of the most expensive netbooks, with a starting price around $700. Now it looks like Gigabyte is planning to expand…
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We’ve seen plenty of people install OS X on netbooks by now. There’s the Dell Mini Mac, the Lenovo IdeaMac S10, the Asus Mac PC, and of course, the MSI Windbook. But consider the game officially upped. Because one YouTube users has managed to successfully load OS X on a Gigabyte M912X. The Gigabyte M912 series of computers have the…
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The Gigabyte M912 has an ExpressCard slot, making it incredibly easy to slide a 3G modem or other peripheral into the netbook. But most ExpressCard wireless modems stick out pretty far from the case, making an ugly spectacle of themselves. Fortunately, jkkmobile is on the case. He’s posted a tutorial for adding an internal 3G card to a Gigabyte M912…
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As I mentioned yesterday, UMPC Portal’s Steve Paine recently got his hands on a Gigabyte M912M tablet style netbook. And today he’s posted the video to prove it. Overall, he says the device is quite responsive thanks to a decent hard drive, the 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, and a decent touchscreen display. Unlike virtually every other netbook on the market,…
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The Gigabyte M912M and M912X tablet style netbooks are now shipping in Europe. The M912 series of laptops stretches the generally accepted definition of a netbook in two ways. First, they’re a bit on the pricy side, at about $700 to $800 US. And second, it has a touchscreen display that you can swivel and fold down over the keyboard to use…
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Some folks like to take electronics apart and put them back together again for fun. Lucky for us, the folks at Mobile01 also like to take photos. Because they’ve just posted the most detailed article you can imagine about the disassembling a Gigabyte M912V ultraportable tablet. The article is in Chinese, but the pictures are worth an awful lot of…
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If you’ve been scratching your head trying to figure out whether the upcoming Gigabyte M912 mini-tablet PC comes with a 1024 x 600 pixel display or a 1280 x 768 pixel display (I’ve seen reports of both resolutions), it looks like Chippy over at UMPC Portal has solved the mystery – there’s more than one model. I mean, I already…
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Engadget Chinese is reporting that Gigabyte plans to follow up its too-recently-launched-to-be-called-successful M912 8.9 inch netbook tablet with a 10 inch version. Makes sense, since everybody and his kid brother are releasing 9 and 10 inch versions of their netbooks these days. But wait, there’s more. Engadget says “reliable sources” are telling them that the laptop will also sport the…
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