Okay, so no sooner has Samsung issued the challenge against the Eee PC with their Q1 Ultra, than Gigabyte has unveiled their UMPC mini-tablet at CeBit, in Germany. The M700.

The M700 sports a 7-inch touchscreen (with a nice resolution of 1024×600 pixels), full Windows Vista Home Premium, a 1.2GHz Via C7-M processor, and a 2gb of memory. A few other goodies:

• Dual webcams
• GPS
• A WiMAX-capable ExpressCard

There’s no news yet of what the price would be, but I can’t imagine it’ll be cheaper than the Eee PC, since it’s running a full build of Windows Vista. It is, however, a very nice looking device.

These mini-tablets are pretty, but it’s not the same as having a laptop- for one thing, there’s no keyboard. As a person that does a lot of typing on a day-to-day basis, that’s an issue for me. However, I think surfing the web would probably be a snap on one of these devices, so I can definitely see the appeal.

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