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Gigabyte Netbook M912V Press Release

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In a follow-up to yesterday’s story about the M912V, Tim sent in a link to the official Gigabyte press release: Gigabyte.com.tw – Press Release They are calling it the “Netbook-M912V”. They have it weighing in at 1.3kg (just under 2.9 pounds), They also mention that … Read more

Gigabyte M912V – Availability, Pricing

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Akihabara News is reporting that Gigabyte announced today that the Gigabyte M912, wait, make that the Intel-Atom powered Gigabyte M912V, is now available (at least in Taiwan). This has been an eagerly anticipated entry in the numerous netbooks or sub-notebooks, mainly because it’s one of … Read more

Gigabyte M912 Netbook at Computex

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Gigabyte M912 Netbook The details about the Gigabyte M912, aka the Gigabyte M912 Netbook, have finally started to come out, complete with an official product page (it had been a few months since we had heard anything significant). Of note, Gigabyte referred to it as a Netbook (I’m just pointing that out, as someday we may resolve the whole netbook / sub-notebook debate). More details will be released this week at Computex.

This 8.9-inch Intel Atom-powered convertible is going to turn a lot of heads and is going to shake up a small segment of the ultraportable laptop market.

I’m not talking about the netbook / sub-notebook segment of the ultraportable market – I’m talking about the segment that Fujitsu has pretty much had to itself – the under 10-inch “convertible” segment (aka the display rotates and lays flat and allows you to use it either as a notebook or as a Tablet PC). The Gigabyte M912 has a 1280×800 touchscreen display with LED backlighting. Folks, this is pretty close to the Fujitsu LifeBook P1620. This could pass for a low-cost P1620 aimed at the netbook market, but the P1620 is quite a bit more expensive (expensive enought to price itself out of the netbook market).

In addition to the other specifications we knew about, here is some additional information:

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Gigabyte M912 Information

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DigiTimes has news of the Gigabyte M912, which will be Gigabyte’s entry into the low-cost netbook/sub-notebook category that’s becoming popular these days. They are reporting that it could be available sometime in June of 2008 (makes sense given that’s when the launch of Intel’s Atom … Read more

Asus Eee PC 900 – Batteries, Intel Atom

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Asus Eee PC 900 DigiTimes has a couple of articles up about the Asus Eee PC 900 battery life and a bit more information about when the Intel Atom-based devices will be available.

First up – Hong Kong customers of the Eee PC 900s are finding that they are getting 4-cell 4400mAh batteries instead of the 4-cell 5800mAh batteries available with some sample Eee PC 900s issued to reviewers. Asustek said it would be introducing the 5800mAh battery in later devices and that it was a mistake that review samples had the higher capacity batteries, however it is investigating replacing the 4400mAh batteries.

DigiTimes also reported that Asustek has ordered a substantial number of Intel Atom CPUs, along with Acer and Dell (which could end up in Dell’s netbook/ultraportable) and that HP has ordered a smaller number of VIA C7-M for its Mini-Note:

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