Comments on: Gigabyte M700 overview and video http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:38:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: th3g1vr http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video#comment-2423 th3g1vr Tue, 27 May 2008 03:34:11 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video/#comment-2423 Lardo, FTR: Via processors may be no longer mainstream, but the fact is they've been pioneering in the area power-efficiency long before any other chip manufacturing company still significantly active today. In fact, that's why AMD bought them in the first place- most modern AMD chips use some Via technology, and the AMD Geode makes very heavy use of it- it wouldn't be far-fetched to say the Geode is just a re-branded Via product. But speculations aside, Via is still the trusted providers of several data-transfer/network-based technologies- check your USB hub, network adapter or router chip and I'd bet it has Via written all over it. also FYI- the most critically accepted UMPC in existence, the OQO, used and still uses Via Lardo, FTR: Via processors may be no longer mainstream, but the fact is they’ve been pioneering in the area power-efficiency long before any other chip manufacturing company still significantly active today. In fact, that’s why AMD bought them in the first place- most modern AMD chips use some Via technology, and the AMD Geode makes very heavy use of it- it wouldn’t be far-fetched to say the Geode is just a re-branded Via product. But speculations aside, Via is still the trusted providers of several data-transfer/network-based technologies- check your USB hub, network adapter or router chip and I’d bet it has Via written all over it.

also FYI- the most critically accepted UMPC in existence, the OQO, used and still uses Via

]]> By: sergueis http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video#comment-2354 sergueis Sun, 25 May 2008 11:23:06 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video/#comment-2354 Phones?? Are you crazy man? Phones will be the mainstream pf mobile computing only and only they'll manage to provide us a virtual screen 3-4-5 times bigger than their real screen. I don't care if it's gonna be a screen-built-in-your-glasses or 2D-picture-floating-in-the-air or anything else. But the point is: with phones' tiny screens it's impossible to do any basic computing (not speaking of such things like Photoshop and a kind). Phones?? Are you crazy man? Phones will be the mainstream pf mobile computing only and only they’ll manage to provide us a virtual screen 3-4-5 times bigger than their real screen. I don’t care if it’s gonna be a screen-built-in-your-glasses or 2D-picture-floating-in-the-air or anything else. But the point is: with phones’ tiny screens it’s impossible to do any basic computing (not speaking of such things like Photoshop and a kind).

]]> By: tk4killa http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video#comment-1835 tk4killa Thu, 15 May 2008 18:26:18 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video/#comment-1835 I agree with you this is a interesting device, but VIA processors are not that bad (Amtek T770 is a good performer with 1.2GHz). The overheating and noises can be overcome, and overall i think UMPC/MID could be the future of portable computers. Except if phones become super powerful and run heavyweight OS(s). I agree with you this is a interesting device, but VIA processors are not that bad (Amtek T770 is a good performer with 1.2GHz).
The overheating and noises can be overcome, and overall i think UMPC/MID could be the future of portable computers.
Except if phones become super powerful and run heavyweight OS(s).

]]> By: Lardo http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video#comment-1823 Lardo Thu, 15 May 2008 13:32:39 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/05/gigabyte-m700-overview-and-video/#comment-1823 I don´t really get why such a potentially interesting device like this one, available "toward the end of summer", will have a dinosaur-processor like the VIA; pair that with a regular HD (that will make such a thin slate probably hot and noisy, in a time when the Atoms are already in town) and you have technology from last year packed in a (probably pricey) "multimedia" combo, that I very much doubt most of the folks were asking for (Specially "interesting" the idea of having to carry around the dock station when you want to connect most of the peripherals: where´s the portability factor then???). It may be just me, but this UMPC world is losing me month a month. And if Asus or any other manufacturer decides to make an 8-10" EEE Slate (or even better, one with a detachable keyboard), paired with silent, non-toasty processors, and within EEE prices, I see VERY dark clouds in the distance for this kind of devices... Cheers I don´t really get why such a potentially interesting device like this one, available “toward the end of summer”, will have a dinosaur-processor like the VIA; pair that with a regular HD (that will make such a thin slate probably hot and noisy, in a time when the Atoms are already in town) and you have technology from last year packed in a (probably pricey) “multimedia” combo, that I very much doubt most of the folks were asking for (Specially “interesting” the idea of having to carry around the dock station when you want to connect most of the peripherals: where´s the portability factor then???).

It may be just me, but this UMPC world is losing me month a month. And if Asus or any other manufacturer decides to make an 8-10″ EEE Slate (or even better, one with a detachable keyboard), paired with silent, non-toasty processors, and within EEE prices, I see VERY dark clouds in the distance for this kind of devices…

Cheers

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