... another bus is on the way ...

Spotted (on purpose perhaps) at Computex 2008 was the GIGABYTE M912. Yet another 'small' laptop ... with a 8.9" convertable touchscreen packing an Atom processor.

Endgadget says:

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 over 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.

Just how many more can the world take ?

And ... I only just finished this posting and thought I would have a look on Gismodo to see what is new and LO and BEHOLD ... another bus came round the corner ... this time it is an Acer Aspire One -

Acer has just announced their new 8.9" Aspire One ultraportable laptop. With a starting price of just $379, configurations include an Intel Atom processor, up to 1GB of RAM and either 8GB of flash storage or an 80GB hard drive as well as a choice between Linpus Linux Lite and Windows XP. Nothing here is out of the ordinary for this new class of laptops except its competitive price and that future iterations are planned with 3G data support