Gigabyte T1000 takes a new twist on life with Atom N470 and a multitouch display

Ever get the feeling that what you see on paper just isn't going to be as good in person? That's sort of how we felt today when we stopped by Gigabyte's CeBIT booth to get a look at its newly announced T1000 netvertible. On the spec front the T1000 has everything we could possibly want in a netbook -- a new 1.83GHz Atom N470, 2GB of RAM, a chiclet keyboard and a 1366 x 768-resolution multitouch display -- but in our few minutes of use things were far from rainbows and butterflies. The resistive touch panel required a pretty firm press, and when in slate mode there's no buttons (or accelerometer) for rotating the device. While we liked the chiclet keyboard, we'll never understand why Gigabyte has kept the two mouse buttons on the sides of the touchpad. We realize that we may be jumping to conclusions too quickly here, so we'll let you decide for yourselves with the help of a short video after the break.

Gigabyte T1000 hands-on

[tehslax Posted Mar 1st 2010 10:39PM]

we'll never understand why Gigabyte has kept the two mouse buttons on the sides of the touchpad

Thats like questioning the meaning of life

[emopoops Posted Mar 1st 2010 10:48PM]

@tehslax yeah and why does it say video not availiable"?

[Ducman69 Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:01PM]

@tehslax HP does that too. Its obvious why, it gives you more touchpad/keyboard space.

Luckily I rarely use the physical buttons anyway since you left click on the touchpad itself.

[celinelorkans Posted Mar 6th 2010 4:42PM]

@tehslax Other problems that were noticed include the lack of a sensor to detect screen orientation (as well as a lack of a button to achieve this also). Also the the mouse buttons look to be quite frustrating being either side of the touchpad rather than the traditional underneath that everyone will be used to.

Hopefully it'll be fixed. More: http://bit.ly/gigabyte-t100-hands-on

[glenskey Posted Mar 1st 2010 10:42PM]

"...takes a new twist on life.."

Baddum-bum chh.

[New Reformation Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:04PM]

@glenskey

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

[happyzor Posted Mar 1st 2010 10:48PM]

PRICE?

[happyzor Posted Mar 1st 2010 10:57PM]

Also, video not available.

[Gwhooey Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:00PM]

FAIL. Where's the terminator referance?

[n8equalsd Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:18PM]

@Gwhooey
lol

[Ash R Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:28PM]

@Gwhooey

I was waiting for that too.... :(

[toast Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:57PM]

@Ash R
There's not even one in the comments yet!

[Jacinth Posted Mar 2nd 2010 12:56AM]

@Gwhooey

You thought of it first, therefor, you make the reference.

[Langdon Alger Posted Mar 2nd 2010 1:13AM]

@Gwhooey "Have you seen this boy?"

[Gwhooey Posted Mar 2nd 2010 9:32AM]

@Gwhooey Gigabyte T1000 advanced prototype.

[Mr Oos Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:12PM]

I'll reserve full judgment until the video is up and running, but it looks pretty nice in the pictures. I like the look of the keyboard, too.

[xlaxplaya Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:45PM]

Video?

[ChanceMan Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:49PM]

Hopefully the T1000 won't try to kill any users named John Connor.

[PaulS Posted Mar 2nd 2010 12:50AM]

I've got the T1028X, incl a 2GB upgrade and can only say it's a wonderful machine. I run Photoshop & Lightroom fluently enough for some occasional small projects. Also in tablet-mode it's a highly precise touchscreen (just single touch). It also has the two mouse buttons this way & it's perfectly easy to get used to and actually makes sense! best wishes

[elis Posted Mar 8th 2010 2:53PM]

@PaulS -
I am thinking of purchasing the T1028. Do you use handwriting apps much? I would want to do extensive notetaking in MS OneNote and a curious how well it works and how comfortable it is if you can't rest your palm on the screen. Or can you, since it's not a multi-touch screen?

Thanks.

[djcarey Posted Mar 2nd 2010 1:26AM]

Hope that the T1000 doesn't come to haunt us in the future...

[Joanna Stern Posted Mar 2nd 2010 5:43AM]

Epic fail on @joannastern's part. Video is live now.