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 […]
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10 inch, dual-core Gigabyte M912 coming soon?
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 […]
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Laptop Magazine: Gigabyte M912 is hot… too hot
The Gigabyte M912 is the first netbook-class device to feature a touchscreen display that can rotate 180 degrees for tablet-style use. What sets the M912 apart from your typical tablet PC computers is the fact that it sells for under $1000, weighs less than 4 pounds, and has an 8.9 inch display. But it also […]
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Gigabyte M912 gets unboxed… again
Sure, we saw Chippy unbox a Gigabyte M912 the other day. But he got his hands on a pre-production unit. Laptop Magazine, on the other hand, found an eBay seller who was willing to ship a unit with the official packaging from Taiwan. The packaging looks pretty decent. And the computer comes with a nice […]
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Gigabyte M912 available in Germany sans operating system?
The Gigabyte M912 may not be coming to the US anytime soon, but if you happen to live in Germany, it looks like you should be able to pick one up within a few weeks. Eee PC News.de discovered that the Notebook Shop is selling M912s in several configurations — including two versions that are […]
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Gigabyte M912V tablet PC to skip the US market
While companies like Asus, Acer, HP, MSI, and Dell are busy putting out low-cost ultraportable laptops with a clamshell design, the Gigabyte M912V has a tablet PC style design. That is to say, you can operate it either in clamshell mode like a typical laptop, or you can swivel the touch screen and lay it […]
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Gigabyte reveals M912V details and pricing
First the good news. That Gigabyte M912V tablet PC that showed its face at Computex? It’s real, and it’s spectacular (at least on paper). Now for the bad news. While the M912V is certainly cheap by tablet PC standards, at $699 it’s one of the most expensive “low cost,” Intel Atom-based ultraportable machines scheduled for […]
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Gigabyte M912 running Ubuntu Netbook Remix – Video
We already knew the Gigabyte M912 ultraportable tablet would run Windows Vista instead of XP. But if you look closely that this hands-on video from Laptop Magazine, you can see that it’s also capable of running Ubuntu. And not just any old Ubuntu. That looks to me like Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the new version of […]
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More Gigabyte M912 details emerge
We got some initial details about the Gigabyte M912 low cost tablet PC yesterday, but the folks at TweakTown stumbled across a working unit at Computex today and managed to jot down a few more details. So here’s the rundown: CPU: 1.6GHz Intel Atom OS: Windows Vista, XP, or Linux Display: 8.9 inch 1280 x […]
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Gigabyte M912 runs Windows Vista
Gigabyte has gone out of its way to make sure the company’s first low cost ultraportable stands out from the crowd. Not only will the Gigabyte M912 feature a swiveling tablet-style touch screen, but Engadget Chinese reports that it also runs Windows Vista instead of Windows XP.The decision to use Vista is apparently due to […]