It looks like Gigabyte maybe preparing to launch something during the Computex next week as well. What was previously previewed in CEBIT, is now showing up at Gigabytes product catalog with the annotation that says “coming soon”.
No official announcement or word yet about the M912 coming from Gigabyte. But what we learned is that it’s going to be a touchscreen minitablet PC-like machine. In the meantime take a gander at the Gigabyte M912’s features and specs:
- Genuine Microsoft Windows XP compliance and support LINUX
- Intel CPU 1.6GHz
- 8.9”LCD panel/WXGA 1280×768, w/Touch screen, LED Backlight, as 180° rotation angle
- Intel® 945GSE
- 2.5” ,9.5mm S-ATA HDD 120/160/250GB
- Built-in 1.3M pixel CMOS camera
- Speaker 1.5 watt x 2
- 80 key keyboard/Touch Pad
With its 8.9-inch LCD panel, this certainly is a direct competitor of the Eee PC 900 and 901.
Via [UMPC Portal]
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I’m glad to see WXGA 1280×768 instead of 1024. This has been the one thing keeping me from picking up an EeePC. I’m just waiting to see what Dell comes out with.
1280×768 on a 8.9″ display results in extremely tiny text. If you need this resolution, you might consider a 10 or 12 inch display.
Hasn’t Microsoft said it wouldn’t sell Windows XP for subnotebooks with touch screens?
2 Well: No, it does _not_. At least in well-designed OSes. If controls in your dialog boxes aren’t nailed to pixels the way they are in MS Windows, you can freely change font sizes without the text being cropped or other nuisances.
Some[1] even claim that if not for Microsoft, we would have had 600+ DPI monitors by now—which would eliminate the need in abominations like ClearType. There’s absolutely no reason for a 17″ 2048×1536 monitor not to display fonts of any desired size. The sizes would be specified in millimeters, not pixels, and fonts would look the same on any kinds of devices.
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[1] antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization
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