When I think back to the M912, Gigabyte’s first touchscreen netbook, I think about fast hard drive speed, a fun form factor and easy upgrade capability. Unfortuinately I also think about the noise and heat. [M912 Video]
The T1028M ‘Touchnote’ is the latest touchscreen convertible from Gigabyte and from looks alone (we checked it out at CeBIT) it seems like a good improvement over the M912. Price is looking good and we should be getting one either this week or next week for full-on testing and a live session.
We won’t be the first to get full hands-on and review though because the device is already out there. Engadget China have put up a few bullet-point notes [translation] and they look good. Noise and temperature seem to have been addressed, there’s a multi-touch mousepad and talk of 4.5hours battery life (on a 6-cell battery though.) I get the impression that Engadget were’nt overwhelmed with excitement meaning it’s not going to be the netbook to beat all netbooks but that’s not where it’s targeted. There’s one thing that could be very interesting to test out though… Point 4 on the Engadget list appears to indicate that the touchscreen quality is different. Could this be a slightly harder-touch screen? If so, this could be a dream come true for all the natural input fans out there. With Windows 7, it could really shine in that department.
Via Slashgear. Source: Engadget China
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Deareast twitter.com/Chippy, shalom, & first off, happy april fools day 09, & about your midas touch with another fantastic added to your yt video collection expose on the T1028M well done, on this newbee T1028M, nobody usally has ever done it “simply” better then you do…& im going to right away today going to asap purchase a few of these babys for my office gal pals as passover easter employee bonuses…next why have in not seen any recent reviews on the flybook like @ http://flybook-photo-gallery.com/ ??? any comments & ocz neutrino DIY netbook guys told me to go to hypersonic-pc.com & look @ thier highest end clients http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/aviator-notebooks/aviator-eq7.html product, they the hypersonic nice guys then told me, that they are just awaiting for the intel i7 to be released so they can provide it to thier clients in a upgraded super form faster factoer asap sometime in Q2…north of VIP budgets of U$D 5-7k. & last but not least these rugged notebook guys @ http://www.getac.com/products/overview_a790.htm might consider looking @ supplying chassis if there is enogh intrests from the gp, since they offer special services for special needs people doing g-d’s work in not so nice places like FOB’S {FORWARD OPERATING BASES} & who need a sealed notebook system & whom obviously have to worry about heat dis, & what not issues, hencefore resulting in-corporating obviously not the most up to date state of the art extreem capable cutting edge utilitys available on the int’l marketplaces…because of all these issues…so i guess the best i can look forward to is if they will decide to offer & pseudo break into the DIY chassis marketplace…so i could have one of these other vendors like ocz finnish her up & add all the extra things like…along with the capabilitys of haveing a sliding fan door so that when i am in a clean room likk enviroment, i can open the airlock type hatch & let the airconditioned enviroment help keep cool the baby down…which is most of the time anyway, but again asking anything out of what they think os out of thier ordinary is just to much to ask for nomatter what is the negative co$t or $ale potentia! there is to them…& that goes for just about every vendor out thier that it is why the next machines are going to be DIY or not for me…as the old addage goes “if you do not do it yourself it simple will not get done right the first time & hencefore $aves you the r & d time & trouble of having to do it right, for sure the $econd time…G-D bless you & twitter.com/Chippy & for umpcportal.com & very much sincerely, any well added responces welcomed…G’Day twitters