The Gigabyte M912 gets pricing, release date (sort of)

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Posted on 07 July 2008 by Ben

So it seems as though the Atom based Gigabyte M912 8.9″ mini-tablet/netbook is supposedly going to be released some time in late July with a $699 price tag. We actually got this info a few days ago (thanks Johan), however I hesitated to post as the two key points of information that formed the news had been removed from the source. Apparently Gigabyte put up information on the news page of their website giving a price ($699) and rough release date (sometime in July) a few days ago, but suddenly pulled those two nuggets of info from the page while leaving the rest of it intact without any explanation. I wanted to wait a while to see if they would put the info back up, but it seems that won’t be happening any time soon. So for now we have what seems to be the price and release date, however it could have just as likely been a mistake. The M912 is officially listed on Gigabyte’s product page as “Coming Soon”… whatever that means.

12 Comments For This Post

NobbyNobbs says:
July 7th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Gigabyte and release dates… a really sad story!
Ok, it`s not only Gigabyte. But why aren`t they able to give more accurate release dates? Is it really this difficult?

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kyuss says:
July 7th, 2008 at 11:21 am
well…i don’t know, but maybe it has something to do with intel’s problem to supply the demand for the atom?

anyway…good job, gigabyte…some nice machines recently…

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Harry says:
July 7th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Im quite looking forwards to reviews of this as ive been putting off buying other netbooks because of it…

$699 seems an ok price, as long as its below £400 ill definately consider it. But ill be waiting to see how the reviwers think it handles vista first.

i dont think the atom delays should really stop them from releasing it as its not like being unable to meet customer demand stopped the original eee from launching or for instance the ninteno wii.

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Geoffrey says:
July 7th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I will grab one of these in a heartbeat IF the RAM can be upgraded to at least 2GB.

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ArchiMark says:
July 7th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I want one!

Especially if they sell for $699 USD……

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Vit says:
July 7th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Yes, it is tha question! Can RAM be expanded to 2Gb?

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hikoki says:
July 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
3.5 hours´battery-life is the weak point. Otherwise, a nice gadget.

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Anonymous Reader says:
July 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
FYI - Gottabemobile linked to both laptopmag.com article and Tomshardware.com, refuting Tom’s Hardware SSD power use testing with SSD better than HD.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955.html

vs

http://blog.laptopmag.com/web-surfing-test-shows-ssds-better-for-battery-life

So, who do we trust (or does it just depend on the type of use that we do if SSD is better or worse than HD (powerwise)?

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Dandy411 says:
July 7th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Dandy wants . I was going to buy the fujitsu u810 until I saw this at computex.

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scoobie says:
July 8th, 2008 at 12:21 am
This is much bigger than the u810

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zoogle says:
July 8th, 2008 at 4:12 am
I wonder how it stacks up against a refurb Fujitsu P1610…

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xemone says:
July 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Hey guys check this out
http://www.gottabemobile.com/CommentView,guid,425E65D1-4A06-4E31-A6C2-B706C951A134.aspx#0d686d6d-a561-4b17-968b-5383517ee613 Matthew Dillon over at GottaBeMobile.com emailed a Gigabyte representative about the M912 and they replied that it won’t be released in the US or Canada Market, only in Asia and Europe. What do you guys think of this? I for one am disappointed.

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July 8th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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