Add Gigabyte to the roster of low cost notebook makers in 2008

Logo_gbtHow quickly the market gets crowded! That’s fine with me: the more computer manufacturers that make small, sub-notebooks, the more choices mobile tech consumers will have. Yesterday, it was Acer, Dell and HP that jumped in the planning pool for an Asus Eee PC competitor. Today it’s Gigabyte, who also had an Intel Menlow powered Mobile Internet Device (MID) on display at CES. Or was it an Aigo?Regardless of the MID, there’s no disputing that the low-priced notebook market is heating up. Gigabyte plans to follow the 7- to 9-inch display crowd with an offering in June, which would proceed after an expected April launch of their MID. Intel’s Shelton platform is the rumored engine, which is apparently a single-core chip with a 1.6 GHz clock speed and 533 MHz front side bus. Hmm… a bit more oomph than the underclocked 900 MHz Intel Celeron in the Asus Eee PC; will that equate to a price around $500?

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