Closer look at the Gigabyte M912V – from the inside

Some folks like to take electronics apart and put them back together again for fun. Lucky for us, the folks at Mobile01 also like to take photos. Because they’ve just posted the most detailed article you can imagine about the disassembling a Gigabyte M912V ultraportable tablet. The article is in Chinese, but the pictures are worth an awful lot of words.

The Gigabyte M912V is a netbook with an 8.9  inch display, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, and a touchscreen. The question is, now that you know how to take it apart, what would you want to put inside? The PC already includes 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, and a touchscreen display. Those are probably the top three things hackers tend to put in these tiny laptops. I suppose it could use an SSD upgrade, 802.11n, or GPS. There’s always something.

[via UMPC Portal]

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008, 4:47 pm by Brad Linder | Tags: , ,

Gigabyte M912 tablet LCD to come in two flavors

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.

Thursday, August 28th, 2008, 12:28 pm by Brad Linder | Tags: , , , , , ,