Gigabyte M912
Specifications
Average of 6 scores (from 7 reviews)
Reviews for the Gigabyte M912
Source: PC Advisor
Gigabyte's M912M adds tablet PC capability to a low-power netbook - at a price. There may be some environments when a touchscreen walkabout netbook can be useful, in which case the M912 could still earn its keep. But is there a need for netbook performance at a tablet price? For normal usage, given its high price, uninspiring and plasticky build and so-so battery life, even with the addition of a touchscreen interface it still fails to impress.
60, Ausstattung 70, Verarbeitung 60
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/07/2009
Rating: Total score: 60% features: 70% workmanship: 60%
Source: Laptop Mag
The Gigabyte M912V has the potential to shake up the mini-notebook market, but it hasn’t mastered the basics of comparable systems. While the touch experience is solid and as good as many of the other tablets out there, its limited endurance, cramped keyboard, and hot temperature limit its potential. It packs much of the tablet functionality of the Fujitsu LifeBook P1620, which is the same size but costs $1,400 more, but the P1620 offers twice the performance and battery life. If you’re looking primarily for a mini-notebook that lets you use your finger to navigate the Web, the $699 M912V is the best choice. But if you want a cheaper 8.9-inch netbook to tote around on the go, the $379 Acer Aspire one or the $599 Eee PC 901 will do the trick.
3 von 5, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/11/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% mobility: 40%
Source: Hardware Zone
Given all that we've touched upon so far, it does seem that Gigabyte has a pretty decent product on their hands, give or take a few issues. We've yet to encounter a perfect netbook as yet, as each netbook has its own significant pluses and minuses that makes us shy back from giving it the ultimate accolade. Not that we don't want to really, but given the hugely competitive netbook market segment, we'll probably stumble upon it soon enough. By itself, the Gigabyte M912 is a worthy entrant to the netbook market, especially when you factor in its features that we've yet to encounter in other netbooks. As the first Vista loaded Atom based netbook that we've reviewed so far, the M912's quick boot up speed and void of any notable lag when it comes to using Vista and its associated interface is indeed an impressive feat.
3.5 von 5
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/08/2008
Rating: Total score: 70%
Foreign Reviews
Source: c't - 3/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 02/01/2009
Rating: performance: 40% features: 70% display: 70% mobility: 40% ergonomy: 40% emissions: 40%
Source: ZDNet
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/02/2008
Rating: Total score: 74% price: 70% performance: 80% features: 80% ergonomy: 60% emissions: 40%
Source: Chip.de - 11/08
Comparison, , Short, Date: 10/16/2008
Rating: Total score: 74% price: 70% performance: 92% features: 100% display: 43% mobility: 55% ergonomy: 78%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/11/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 60% features: 30% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 50%
Comment
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games). These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.Intel Atom: The Intel Atom series is a 64-Bit (not every model supports 64bit) microprocessor for cheap and small notebooks (so called netbooks), MIDs, or UMPCs. The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution (instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution). Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low. The performance per Megahertz is therfore worse than the old Pentium 3M (1,2 GHz on par with a 1.6 GHz Atom).
N270:
Power efficient, cheap and slow Netbook single core CPU. Because of the in-order execution, the performance per MHz is worse than Core Solo or Celeron M processors.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.8.9":
This display diagonal is quite small for tablets.
Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.1.2 kg:
This weight is typical for big tablets, small subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 10-11 inch display-diagonal.
Gigabyte: GIGABYTE Technology is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of computer hardware products best known for its motherboards. Established in 1986, its major customers include custom boutique PC manufacturers such as Alienware. Secondary lines in the company's product portfolio include complete PCs, laptops, optical drives, LCD monitors, keyboards, mice, cooling components, mobile phones and high end mobile phone products (PDA phone, TV phone etc.), networking equipment, power supplies, and a line of barebone mid and full sized ATX computer cases. Gigabyte laptop reviews are rare and the global laptop market share low.
In the notebook sector, Gigabyte is a medium player and does not belong to the Top 10 manufacturers globally. There are many reviews on Gigabyte laptops with average ratings, but there are only few reviews on Gigabyte tablets. Gigabyte does not play a role in the smartphone sector (as of 2016).
68%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.