Yet another manufacturer joining the low-cost market
It's all happening in the low-cost notebook market that ASUS brought to life with its popular EeePC.
Whilst we wait for ASUS to reveal its second generation EeePC, other manufacturers aren't wasting any time in getting involved themselves.
Everex has already announced its low-cost CloudBook, a device that will begin to ship in the US in little over a week. Then there's Acer, one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world, it plans on entering the low-cost market with a portable device of its own in Q1 or Q2.
They're all lining up the lucrative market and the latest company with low-cost notebooks in its sights is Taiwan-based manufacturer, Gigabyte.
Richard Ma, Gigabyte vice president, today revealed plans to enter the low-cost notebook market in June (a tad more specific on dates than Acer). The Gigabyte devices will feature screen sizes of 7" to 9" and will be designed and manufactured by Gigabyte itself.
It'll be a year of portable growth for Gigabyte as the company will also ship Menlow-based MIDs and UMPCs in April.