Gigabyte Touch Note T1028M, a netbook with foldable touchscreen display is now available. The company has made the 8.9-inch convertible touchscreen netbook before in 2008.. so this would be the second touchscreen netbook from Gigabyte, and according to UMPC Portal, Gigabyte has learned a lot from its experience with the previous model and built a much better machine in the 10.1-inch Touch Note T1028M.


Heres the specification for Gigabyte Touch Note T1028M

• 10.1" swivel touch screen
• Intel Atom Processor N270 1.6GHz
• 2.5" 9.5mm SATA HDD 5400rpm, 160 GB
• 1GB RAM (Max 2GB)
• Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset+ ICH7M
• Embedded HSDPA Support
• 92% full-sized keyboard
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Home

UMPC Portal has done a review on this machine and complement its fast 2.5 inch hard drive and great reception of its UMTS 3G modem. Heres their summary comment on Gigabyte Touch Note T1028M:

"The Touchnote offers a lot more than the average netbook and offers significant improvements over the groundbreaking M912M that came before it. Convertible touchscreen, draft-n WiFi, BT2.1, fast 2.5” drive, easy upgrade possibilities, Expresscard/34 and the well-prepared SIM card and 3G Antenna are a a feature set you won’t find on any other device. The glossy screen and average battery life are really the only two points I could highlight as issues. Oh, and perhaps the fact that an advanced N280-based model is coming soon! Currently Gigabyte stands alone in offering a 10” touchscreen notebook at this price point but they may not have the playground to themselves for long. The ASUS T101H is an obvious competitor and many will be laboring over the choice between the two. Until we get hands-on with the T101H we won’t be able to make a decision but until then, we can certainly say that the Gigabyte Touchnote T1028M is a unique, good value and well thought-out choice in both the prosumer end of the netbook market and the budget notebook market." Read full review

Spesification Gigabyte Q2532C :

Display: Diagonal Size : 15.6”
Operating System: Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium,Genuine Windows® 7 Professional
Resolution : 1366 x 768
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3 / i5 / i7 Processor
Chipset: Mobile Intel® HM65 Express Chipsets
Memory: 1 GB / 2 GB DDR3, 2 slots (Max 8GB)
Optical Drive: 12.7 mm Super Multi DVD RW
LAN : 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Base-T
WLAN : 802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth : Bluetooth V3.0+HS
Audio: Two 2W speakers,Internal Mic-in
Camera: 1.3 Mega Pixel
Security: HDD Password
Battery : Lithium-ion 6 cell

GIGABYTE AMD Radeon HD 6970 2 GB 256 bit GDDR5

1. Powered by AMD Radeon HD 6970 GPU
2. PCI Express 2.1 Support
3. Microsoft DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 * Support
4. Integrated with 2 GB GDDR5 memory and 256-bit memory interface
5. Supports CrossFireX ™ and Avivo ™ HD
6. Dual-link DVI-I / DVI-D / D-sub (by adapter) / HDMI DisplayPort / Mini
   * NOTE: OpenGL 4.1: Drivers scheduled for 2011

40 nm Technology
Faster clocks, double the transistor density of the last 40 nm technology. 40nm technology helped make HD 6970 series products the most advanced GPUs ever highest ever speed clocks, incredible feature integration, full performance and precision all the time, and the ability to take advantage of future high-speed memories.

Catalyst ™ Control Center
Brand new ATI Catalyst Control Center goes far beyond traditional driver configuration software is a feature rich and stable 3D acceleration control application that puts you in total control of his unit ATI visual processing (GPU). Catalyst Control Center offers exceptional graphics performance and visual quality for maximum performance, stability and innovation. Safe GPU overclocking, custom profiles, and assignable hotkeys are just a few of the many new features. You can also enjoy frequent updates, reliable customer service and a program of interactive user feedback, all backed by ATIs technical confidence, the ability of industry leader, and a commitment to creating your ultimate visual experience.

Shader Model 5.0
Shader Model 5.0 adds support for indexed temporaries which can be very useful for certain tasks direct temporary access is preferable is most cases. One reason is that indexed temporaries are hard to optimize. The shader optimizer may not be able to identify optimizations across indexed accesses that could otherwise have been detected. Furthermore, indexed temporaries tend to increase register pressure a lot. An ordinary shader that contains for example, a few dozen variables will seldom consume a dozen time in the final, but is likely to be optimized to a handful depending on what the shader does. This is because the shader optimizer can easily track all variables and reuse registers. This is typically not possible for indexed temporaries, thus the register pressure of the shader may increase dramatically. This could be detrimental to performance as it reduces the hardwares ability to hide latencies.

Microsoft ® DirectX ® 11 and OpenGL ® 4.1 Optimizations
The power of DirectX ® 11 with awesome performance, stunning visual effects and more dynamic interactivity than ever, the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX ® 11 applications. Microsoft ® DirectX ® 11 games with stunning 3D graphics and shading effects. Ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 4.1 applications.

CrossFireX ™ and PCI-E 2.1
Upgrade to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU. PCI Express ® 2.1-Now you are ready for the most demanding graphics applications thanks to PCI Express ® 2.1 support, which allows up to twice the throughput of current PCI Express ® cards. Doubles the bus standards bandwidth from 2.5 Gbit / s (PCIe 1.1) to 5 Gbit / sec.

HDCP Support and Ready to HDMI
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of copy protection technology designed to prevent transmission of non-encrypted high definition content as it travels across DVI or HDMI digital connections. High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a new interface standard for consumer electronics devices that combines HDCP-protected digital video and audio in a single consumer connector.