Comments on: Gigabyte M912. High spec. Low price?

By: Judge

Judge — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:05:59 +0000

Does anyone know a UK release date for this?

By: Judge

Judge — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:51:31 +0000

Well I think if Gigabyte market this right they could be a real winner! They just need to get the price right if they can get around $700 or £350 I think it will sell big time. If Gigabyte can also ship a decent car mounting and power kit they could have
a perfect in-car pc (with a bluetooth GPS reciever). Given that the M912 can also be used as a conventional umpc it has a distinct advantages over the eee pc 901 The drives for me at 120 and 250 huge for a umpc. There are a couple of area’s where I think it may fall down, battery life (it only has a 4 rather than 6 cell battery), at 40mm+ it is quite thick for a umpc but i guess that is because of the touch screen and the large capacity hard drives. Lastly because of Microsoft’s lack of the support the M912 might have to ship with Windows Vista which will means it run much slower than XP. An option of a 20GB SSD and XP for the same price would make it a killer umpc.

By: Oldhand

Oldhand — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:35:07 +0000

After watching the Computex video, I am interested in this netbook because on the video the Taiwanese CNet reporter stated most of the specs and more importantly demostrated that it will run UBUNTU which is one of the most popular linux distrobutions. This is a very important development because I have an Eee PC 900 and have been somewhat unimpressed with Xandros distrobution that came with it. It boots quickly and is fairly robust but the software available in its repositories is limited. Although both Ubuntu and Xandros are based on debian, the UBUNTU repositories contain a lot more software that is current. UBUNTU also provides updates more regularly. Basically, you have access to more frequent and recent updates for linux software. I am still waiting for Xandros to update Openoffice to 2.4.1. and the latest firefox releases. An important thing to consider when buying linux based netbooks is how often their operating system components and software repositories are updated. You don’t want to get stuck with a poorly supported distrobution which may limit your use of the machine. What the computing public needs is a popular linux distrobution that works flawlessly with their netbooks but still provides access to lots of great linux software.

P.S. I know I can run UBUNTU on my Eee PC but some of the features like suspend don’t work properly. In addition, other functionality can be lost when you download updates.

By: Buying If Good Price

Buying If Good Price — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:56:31 +0000

How much money in $ does that translate to? If this is released at about 500$ I think they’d kills the market and steal it from Asus, Acer, Hp, and MSI since this is a umpc TABLET.

TOO COOL.

By: tonster

tonster — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:56:19 +0000

Man this is the hit thingy!!
i saw the machine at computex 2008 in tapei yesterday
tested the machine was awsome but won;t release til mid july however the retail price was shocking its going to be around 17000-19000 NT which is a really decent price comparing to other tablet pcs…

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By: pyr77

pyr77 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:21:43 +0000

Awesome. If it will cost 300/350 pounds than I know my next love…

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By: graziano Varini

graziano Varini — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:53:25 +0000

sto ancora cercando un qualcosa che possa essere letto
in pozzetto della mia barca in plain soleil
ma arriverà (transreflective)

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By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:48:10 +0000

linux makes better use of the available hardware then vista, thats why

but yes, that hp is one sweet device. and the least expensive tablet pc to date with a dual mode digitizer screen iirc.

but if gigabyte stays close to eeepc with this package, the price difference between the hp and the m912 will be huge…

By: wabre

wabre — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:19:45 +0000

I have HP tx2120us tablet pc with 12,1 inch touchscreen, active, amd 2.2ghz 64bit,nvidia graphics, 4 GB ram, 250 gig hard drive and all great features. with vista that runs faster than most other laptops and desktops! bought in the states for 1300 usd INCL taxes. if this one here is gonna cost more, i have no idea why not buying the HP tablet which is just slightly bigger

By: ssagg

ssagg — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:49:24 +0000

isn’t it a little big for a touchscreen? a digitizer may be?