If you’ve been scratching your head trying to figure out whether the upcoming Gigabyte M912 mini-tablet PC comes with a 1024 x 600 pixel display or a 1280 x 768 pixel display (I’ve seen reports of both resolutions), it looks like Chippy over at UMPC Portal has solved the mystery - there’s more than one model.

I mean, I already knew there’s be several models with different hard drive sizes and operating systems. But here’s the breakdown on the screen resolution. While all models will have an 8.9 inch screen, the M912V and the M912X will have a 1280 x 768 pixel display using inverter technology while the M912M has a 1024 x 600 pixel display using LED back lighting technology.

The M version will have an 80GB hard drive, while the X and V models have 160GB hard drives, Bluetooth, and presumably higher price tags.

Woke up this morning to the news that Asus will soon be pushing out two more Eee PC models. Word on the street (and by street, I mean DigiTimes and Blogeee) is that the new units will feature larger keyboards.

According to DigiTimes, the new computers will be called the Eee PC 904 and 905, and will feature an 8.9 inch display in the same chassis currently used by the company’s 10.2 inch model. In other words, you get a larger keyboard, but you also get a large bezel around the screen. The idea is that Asus will be able to sell the Eee PC 904 and 905 for about the same price as the exisitng Eee PC 901, but you get an easier to use keyboard for your money.

If this is true, what you’d get is a computer with an 8.9 inch 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, 12GB to 20GB of solid state storage, Windows XP or Linux, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, and a big bezel around the screen. Meanwhile, the MSI Wind will pack the same features, plus an 80GB hard drive and a larger screen (with the same resolution) into a case that’s about the same size. And MSI will charge about $150 less.

DigiTimes suggests that Asus is also considering giving the 901 and 900 a price cut or dropping them altogether when the new models hit the streets.

French site Blogeee has posted some images of one of the new models. Apparently the site got its hands on two sets of pictures, because one photoset is labeled Eee PC 903 while the other says Eee PC 904. The 903 looks a lot like existing models, but the 904 is quite clearly a new unit with a larger bezel around the display. No word on what under the hood changes might exist in the 903, or what differentiates the 905 from the 904.

We can probably expect a flood of MSI Wind laptop reviews in the next few days. While a number of news organizations already have their hands on the computers, they’re bound by non-disclosure agreements which prevent them from giving away too many secrets until Tuesday. But Laptop Magazine did post a few pretty pictures and some video yesterday evening.

Eee hacker extraordinaire jkkmobile, the guy who brought us the first touchscreen Eee PC mod, has answered the age-old question: will an Eee PC 900 screen work on an Eee PC 701. The answer? Kind of.

Just days after announcing the new Eee PC 900 with an 8.9 inch screen, Asus officials are talking about plans for a 10-inch model. PC World reports that the company will release a version with a 10-inch screen later this year. There are no plans to put a screen larger than 10 inches on an Eee PC, since anything larger would basically turn the computer into a traditional laptop.

PC World is also confirming the rumor that Asus plans to introduce a version of the Eee PC running Intel’s upcoming Atom processor in June. The atom processor is designed to be more energy efficient than the current Celeron processors used by the Eee PC 701 and 900 series. While it’s pretty clear the 900 series will be getting the Atom treatment, I wonder if Asus will use the new chip in the older 701 2G/4G/8G models. Atom is designed to be a low cost chip, after all.

And rounding up the news from PC World, it took just a few hours Asus to sell out of Eee PC 900 models after the Hong Kong launch. That would probably be more impressive if the article didn’t say “over 1,000″ of the laptops sold almost immediately. Because while I know the Hong Kong release was just the first run, I would have expected the company to have more than a thousand units available at launch. Something tells me there will be a few more to go around by the time the Eee PC 900 hits Europe and the US.

In other news, Asus has been dealing with a battery shortage which has affected some Eee PC shipments. Reuters reports that the company expects these issues to be resolved by June.

And finally, web comic xkcd gives us a new idea for something to do with a low cost, tiny computer.

LG is reportedly working on a new line of widescreen (16:10 and 16:9 aspect ratio) displays for low-cost notebooks like the Eee PC and HP 2133 Mini-Note. DigiTimes reports that the company will start with 8.9 inch 1024 x 600 panels, which happens to be the same resolution supported by the upcoming Eee PC 900, and later bring a 1024 x 576 10.1 inch screen panel to market as well as a 9.4 inch screen.

The 1024 x 600 panel will reportedly be used in upcoming notebooks by Acer, HP, and possibly other companies like Asus.

[via Laptop Logic]