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Carving out the newest niche in the low-cost, mini-laptop, ultra-portable, *gasp* netbook category is the Gigabyte M912. As a convertible, touch-screen mini-tablet, the M912 runs Vista or Ubuntu Linux atop Intel’s Atom processor. Unfortunately, it looks like it might be hampered by a 4-cell battery showing just by 1.5 hours of battery left on a 95% charge. The 7-inch M724 apparently shares the same chassis as the M912

but is meant for classrooms-only, not consumers. Uh, right. That was the original market for all these netbook-class machines as we recall.

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Original post by Thomas Ricker