Gigabyte busts out M1125 netvertible ahead of Computex
By Laura June 
posted May 28th 2010 2:41PM
posted May 28th 2010 2:41PM
Netbook Series
GIGABYTE will exhibit three 10.1-inch Pine Trail-M netbook platforms combining style, technology and functionality. These are the T1000, M1000 and Q1000. The T1000 has a rotating multi-touch screen, chiclet keyboard and is aesthetically appealing with its gold textured surfaces. The M1000, includes the innovative docking station from GIGABYTE, allowing the netbook to be used as a mobile device or as a workstation when docked. Finally, the Q1000 emphasizes its design simplicity while offering functional mobile computing. Consumers will now have a wider variety with better options available to them with the introduction of these 3 unique netbooks.
Notebook Series
The Notebook series from GIGABYTE combines both business and entertainment aspects of your lifestyle, into one powerful device. Gigabyte, has recently, exhibited a variety of notebooks based on the Intel® Calpella platform with screen sizes ranging from the 14-inch Q1447 to the 15.6-inch Q1585. These notebooks are integrated with an NVIDIA® Graphics chipset including an HDMI interface allowing users to indulge in high quality multimedia for business or for pleasure. The Q1585 features the latest LCD technology supporting 3D cinema and an exhilarating gaming experience.
GIGABYTE remains committed to its R & D and is constantly working on new, exciting and innovative ideas to meet the needs of consumers. GIGABYTE's passion for delivering the ultimate user experience, through innovative mobile computing solutions, will be on show this year. GIGABYTE will endeavor to continue developing products that match consumer lifestyles with enhancements to suit both business and recreational activities.
About GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE Technology Co. Ltd., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is known as a leading brand in the IT industry with branch offices located in 24 countries around the world. Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a small research and development team and has since taken a position as one of the in the world's top motherboard manufacturers. In addition to motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE further expanded its product portfolio to include notebook and desktop PCs, datacenter servers, networking products, mobile handsets, and home entertainment devices to serve each facet of the digital life in the home and office. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to "Upgrade Your Life" with innovative technology, exceptional quality, and unmatched customer service. Visit http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ for more information.
GIGABYTE will exhibit three 10.1-inch Pine Trail-M netbook platforms combining style, technology and functionality. These are the T1000, M1000 and Q1000. The T1000 has a rotating multi-touch screen, chiclet keyboard and is aesthetically appealing with its gold textured surfaces. The M1000, includes the innovative docking station from GIGABYTE, allowing the netbook to be used as a mobile device or as a workstation when docked. Finally, the Q1000 emphasizes its design simplicity while offering functional mobile computing. Consumers will now have a wider variety with better options available to them with the introduction of these 3 unique netbooks.
Notebook Series
The Notebook series from GIGABYTE combines both business and entertainment aspects of your lifestyle, into one powerful device. Gigabyte, has recently, exhibited a variety of notebooks based on the Intel® Calpella platform with screen sizes ranging from the 14-inch Q1447 to the 15.6-inch Q1585. These notebooks are integrated with an NVIDIA® Graphics chipset including an HDMI interface allowing users to indulge in high quality multimedia for business or for pleasure. The Q1585 features the latest LCD technology supporting 3D cinema and an exhilarating gaming experience.
GIGABYTE remains committed to its R & D and is constantly working on new, exciting and innovative ideas to meet the needs of consumers. GIGABYTE's passion for delivering the ultimate user experience, through innovative mobile computing solutions, will be on show this year. GIGABYTE will endeavor to continue developing products that match consumer lifestyles with enhancements to suit both business and recreational activities.
About GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE Technology Co. Ltd., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is known as a leading brand in the IT industry with branch offices located in 24 countries around the world. Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a small research and development team and has since taken a position as one of the in the world's top motherboard manufacturers. In addition to motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE further expanded its product portfolio to include notebook and desktop PCs, datacenter servers, networking products, mobile handsets, and home entertainment devices to serve each facet of the digital life in the home and office. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to "Upgrade Your Life" with innovative technology, exceptional quality, and unmatched customer service. Visit http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ for more information.
Don't you mean Computex, not CES in the headline?
@techee44 Totally.
@Laura June
Also,
Gigabyte's just "let" its Computex
I'll take three please! Well, so as long as the display is Wacom compatible.
Notebook manufacturers, THIS is the size screen 1366 x 768 should be on. If you go much bigger than this, up the screen res.
Thank you!
@BigJayDogg3
HD (720p) Capable Screen?
Seconded!
@BigJayDogg3 Agreed. A friend has an Acer netbook with that screen res on a 10" screen and it looks VERY nice. Another friend of mine bought a Dell Inspiron with a 15" screen and that resolution... While it was better than 1024x768, they should have made it slightly bigger.
Wonder what Nvidia graphics it will support. Core iX processor and price I would like to know as well. =)
@N900
Fat chance.
I'll keep dreaming though...
I'll buy one if it has Wacom and that keyboard is half-decent.
Sounds great, just not sure why they'd waste space for an optical drive.
@huh
How is it wasted space? If it fits and doesn't sacrifice other ports there isn't any real reason not to have it besides weight. Even then, you could always swap it out for a dummy. You could put an extra HDD or possibly even a battery in the space too.
@Dafrety it doesn't say it's a bay, usually it will not be swappable. A second battery would be nice but if it's not swappable I'd rather have a smaller, lighter, less expensive computer, haven't used an optical drive in years.
@huh The optical drive could be in the dock that was mentioned as well, nothing said it was built into the main unit. Its not uncommon for ultra portables to have dock optical drives.
@Dafrety or a hybrid SSD ODD combo from Hitachi...
@Born2Jew
Ooh, forgot those.
Gigabyte has lots of experience making convertibles. That baby is going to be hot !
I just want one of these netvertibles to be priced fairly.
If you are charging $300 for the equivalent netbook there is NO WAY you can tell me that it costs an ADDITIONAL $200-$300 to make the screen swivel and be touch sensitive.
Once these things get to the $400 range you will see more people interested in them.
@bjsguess
THIS.
I never get the stupid price increase. I would love a little cheap netvertible but they always have that little swivel tax. :(
@bjsguess
But, it just may cost an additional $200-$300 to add an optical drive & ULV processor, and....make it NOT a Netbook.
I like the concept of the netvertible but I've always been wondering when the manufacturers of these things were going to fix the "design flaw".
I mean, having used a few - having one central point to swivel the two halves is understandable, but at least let them "snap" or "click" into place with support bits. It feels really awful holding these netvertibles as a tablet and feeling them wobble like the joints of a palm pre... it shouldn't be that difficult to put a little plastic moulding here and there so that it can rest and support itself when in its various positions.
@buoy As one of the many smug owners of the HP tm2 that seem to pop up in *vertible discussions, I'd recommend you give it a look some time. It has a very solid feel, tho' probably isn't 'mom-proof' (I'm protective enough that I don't let others handle it for fear of someone forcing it around too far).
@josah ah right. thanks for the heads up. had a quick look on youtube and they look the part. i'll take a look at one soon!
Dear Engadget,
Why do you insist on using the term Netbook or Netvertible to describe products that clearly are NOT?
The Intel Calpella platform is an evolution of the Centrino platform (also not Netbook hardware). It's a ULV chip.
Though having an optical drive knocks this out of the Ultra-Portable category, it's still no *Net*anything.
That is all.
@Epyon My beliefs is if it's under $500, small screen and decent battery life, it's somewhat of a netbook.
Sounds excellent, and this is the tablet for people who actually want to accomplish something.
But I fail to understand the need for an optical drive, and I fail to see how this is a netbook.
If its not super cheap with a atom processor, its probably not a netbook, its an ultra-portable.
please no resistive...
@neillien The whole point of resistive on a convertible laptop is so you can write and draw with a pen. If you want capacitive your better off having it on an all in one so you can just reach out and mess around.
@neillien
I'd take resistive touch over capacitive any day, if it was an either-or choice. Ideally, I'd rather have an active digitizer. If they wanna toss a capacitive layer on top of that I would certainly not object.
@Born2Jew
Isn't that what a Wacom electro-magnetic resonance active pen digitizer is for? Far more precise, can detect the pen hovering above the screen, pressure-sensitive, and also allows for two buttons and an eraser on the pen. (Just don't lose the pen...they're not cheap to replace, unlike the typical plastic toothpick stylus!)
Better yet, that type of digitizer is placed behind the screen, so there's nothing stopping anyone from putting a resistive or capacitive digitizer in front of the screen for finger touch. Tablet PCs have actually been doing this for a few years already-some Wacom + resistive touch, some N-Trig pen + capacitive multi-touch, and most newer ones Wacom + capacitive multi-touch.
The best part is that when the pen comes into range, the touch layer just gets disabled entirely. Perfect palm rejection!
If it had to come down to resistive or capacitive, though, I'm with Epyon. A good resistive digitizer like on the HTC Touch Pro2 doesn't leave me pining for capacitive one bit, and I can only imagine what Stantum's multi-touch-capable and pressure-sensitive take on the resistive digitizer is like.
I still dont get the NETbook part of this NETverrtible, the hardware seems more like a notebook so it would make it a tabletpc
optical FAIL
I don't see any of that in the press release. all the netbooks are supposedly 10.1" too. What gives?