"There is no dash"

*wonders what proportion of TR readers understand that*

Tablet input shortcomings? So put XP Tablet on there!

These are kind of tempting, but my ancient X41 tablets are holding up pretty well, even against the new breed.

The size is attractive, though. I've often wished my tablet were a little smaller.

The one thing I'm shocked about: You didn't even mention the open mini-PCIe slot! Having two means you can easily swap out the stock 802.11b/g for a draft-n or even N final card down the road, and having a SPARE mini-PCIe is unheard-of luxury. There are a great number of fast flash drives (mostly under Intel's Turbo Memory branding) that would drop right into there, giving a nice speedy place to drop your swap file or commonly used apps/docs. More energy efficient too!

Greetings,

Perhaps the touchpad subsystem is (partly) responsible for the increased power use?

I reckon it would be better to eliminate the keyboard and touchpad to slim it down as a netbook. Just a decent, input capable screen (which would cut weight and thickness), and use a separate keyboard and mouse if you needed them. (And you wouldn't need that fancy swivelling hinge, either.)

The only thing I really like about this netbook is the screen resolution. I just want to see it in a normal netbook format.

nettablet is a clunky name

I propose "tablette" instead, lol

honestly, this looks/feels like a netbook with a touchscreen, not a specifically-designed netlet.

To use the right mouse button, which I do quite often, one has to click a shortcut on the system tray that puts the stylus in right-click mode.

A lot of the tablet PCs I've used in the past have a hold-for-right-click function to them.

Did you give that a try, Geoff?

A netbook that simultaneously manages to be too much and too little. It's a nice effort, but a poor execution.

Never quite understood the fascination with taking notes on a tablet. Can not most of the world type their notes much faster than any single hand/pen/paper produce? Your notes are then instantly indexed, spell-checked, and right where you'd end-up putting them anyway?

Don't most tablets suffer from the stems getting worn down/broken? I know at work even regular laptop stems eventually fade and need replacement, and that is only a simple axis of movement.

"With the flexible grace of an under-aged Chinese Olympic gymnast"

nice...

I agree that this is overpriced for the market it serves, but other than that it seems like a nice netbook. I would almost like them to get rid of the touch screen just so it would fall into this market.

Should this be "M912" instead, or is the M192 tablet a new anagramic model?

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Notebook/Products_Spec.aspx?Pro...

Edit: The sticker says M912 too.

http://www.techreport.com/r.x/gigabyte-m192/money.jpg

Futureshop had a 12.1" tablet on sale for $799.99. It came with 250GB hd, 4GB of ram, a 1.9Ghz dual-core AMD CPU, and HD 3200 for the graphics.
Rendering the gigabyte "nettablet" an EPIK PHAIL. Unless you fall for this low power Atom nonsense.

The M912 M model, with a 1024x600 LED-backlit screen, is said to be better in a lot of ways (the obvious ones are screen brightness and battery life but there's more than that).

I really like the idea of small convertible tablets and have been looking forward to the day when well-built affordable machines like this with decent performance would be available ever since the Sharp Zaurus clamshell line started back in '03. Judging from the reviews out there I may have to wait a little longer.

It's a shame about the price as when I first started reading the article I though "tablet in and around the 600 mark" that would be a win. Do these guys believe in market research or even using a "price finder" to see what else is out there? This is serious head the sand stuff.

The battery life is way too short :\

"I conducted a second battery life test looping the sort of DivX video one might download with BitTorrent, if such things were legal, and that only cut battery life by a minute."

I giggled.

I have an HP pavillion TX2500z which is I think is a far superior machine tot his gigabyte laptop. It has a real amd turion processor in it and the surprisingly capable radeon 3200 integrated graphics. Its a fully functional laptop and has all the tablet features you could want. Best of all unlike all other tablets it doesn't cost more than this gigabyte. Its available as a basic config for $900 and coupons can regularly get it below that. Its not a perfect machine but as far as features and ability for the price it really is an incredible value.

Hey Geoff,

I got into an arguement with a friend over what the dpi *input* area is of the screen. Does it seem like the "touchiness" matches the display resolution?

I wanted more, was really hoping this would be something worth caring about. Maybe the next time around...