Gigabyte M912V Shrinks the Tablet PC

By Geoff Duncan Published July 7, 2008

Gigabyte M912V Shrinks the Tablet PC

Taiwan’s Gigabyte has officially announced its M912V tablet PC, which takes the whole idea of a touchscreen-based, swivel-display notebook computer and crams it into a form factor more closely associated with a sub-notebook or the new flavor of Atom-powered “netbook” PCs.

The M912V sports an 8.9-inch, 1,280 by 768-pixel LCD touchscreen display (with LED backlighting) that can rotate 180 degrees to transform from a traditional notebook form factor to a tablet PC. The M912V packs an 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor and a 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive offering up to 250 GB of storage. The unit also offers 1 GB of RAM, a 1.3 megapixel Web cam, integrated stereo speakers, Bluetooth and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi wireless connectivity, and an ExpressCard slot, and an option for HSDPA mobile broadband connectivity.

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Gigabyte plans to ship the M912V with a customer’s choice of Windows XP, WIndows Vista, or an unspecified flavor of Linux. Gigabyte also hasn’t specified a ship date or price point for the M912V; we imagine it might debut in Taiwan and Asian markets before reaching European and (maybe) North American shores.

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