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Next on the low-cost notebook bandwagon: Gigabyte

by Parm Mann on 17 January 2008, 10:04

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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.



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cost ;)
i wonder whether the influx of low-cost linux-powered laptops in the west will have any impact on the rest of the market
dangel
cost ;)
That's what it says, now. :embarrassed:
low-cast eh? is this some form of appartide friendly notebook?

These cut down laptops running linux could be quite an intresting one, first off the distro's are been tayloured too them, most of the problems with linux stem from its truely aborhant stance on hardware support, when i made a simple USB input device, it took about 2 hours to make my windows driver, installer, etc, but on linux it took me 3 days. This is why i hate that gawd awful OS.

But, if they have set up everything you could want, made sure the major show stopping bugs are worked out, and sell enough of them to pay for this developer time, in an effecient manner (ie less than buying a commercial OS) so its useable and stable this could be quite good. People won't be expecting to game on it anyway.
It's a nice niche market for linux - effectively these things are just browsing devices and so people don't care about the OS so long as it's setup reasonably well. I don't mind it on the eee too much but i'm inherently a bloke who likes to fiddle around and inevitably linux is always about the oh-so-friendly command line when you want to do anything remotely complex. I have to admit, i'm going to try XP on it as a result.. Does that make me a bad person? :mrgreen: