Gigabyte Releases T1028X Touchscreen Netbook

Gigabyte has announced a new touchscreen netbook convertible dubbed T1028X. It’s an upgrade to already available T1028M. The netbook is equipped with 10.1″ LED-backlit resistive touchscreen with 1366×768 screen resolution.

It includes the Intel Atom N280 Processor along with 1 GB of RAM and a 160 GB Hard Disk. Graphics is handled by Intel GMA 950. It’s equipped with a 6-cell 7650 mAh battery that can give up to six and a half hours of battery life. It also gives option of integrated HSDPA. There is also an Express Card 54 slot included along with Wi-Fi b/g and Bluetooth. It has a large full keyboard and bright screen.

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Windows 7 RTM on a Toshiba Netbook

One of the first things we did when our copy of Windows 7 RTM arrived was to bring our array of netbooks out of the dark ages of Windows XP and into the next generation of Microsoft’s OS. The new Toshiba mini NB205-N210 was one of the first to receive the upgrade, and it handled the transition perfectly. Installing the OS was a breeze; drivers were automatically found for all of the hardware, giving it the same functionality coming out of the install as it had in Windows XP.

As PCMag’s laptop expert Cisco Cheng noted in his review, the NB205-N210 is the vanilla ice-cream of netbooks: unexciting, but still pretty sweet. The generic netbook hardware isn’t a problem for Windows 7.

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