With CeBIT 2009 nearing its start, there are more and more news about who and what will be attending this show. Same goes for Taiwanese company Gigabyte, who announced thgat they will show off three brand new 10-inch netbooks: the M1028, M1024 and M1022. Though having not offered much additional information, we do know that they all will have a 10-inch screen with the additional possibility to rotate M1028's display, allowing the user to turn it into a tablet PC, much like the M912 convertible notebook we saw last year.

Also, the M1028 is powered by an 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, unlike the M1022 which is powered by the 1.66GHz Atom N280. The M1024 however is supposed to be a thinner version of the M1024. There is of course no pricing information as well as no real release date for the 3 10-inch netbooks, but one can suppose that they will arrive on the market in the second quarter of 2009.

As you probably know only too well already, the netbook is a lighter, cheaper, class of laptop computer designed for navigating the Internet or for wireless communications. Since it's designed for browsing the web or e-mailing, it doesn't pack as much punch as the normal laptop, but features lower power demands, efficient resource management and not to mention a cheap price, which make it usually the best office sollution. Especially since software developers such as Microsoft have speculated the netbook market and quickly adapted their products to fit the Netbook's system configuration.

Lightweight and portable, smaller than the usual laptop and definitely cheaper, netbooks have stolen the market away from laptops or other such devices. And the way netbooks continue to evolve nowadays, I would be surprised if the future brings us even more computing power at the same shape size and price as a netbook. There's surely going to be a lot of news reports when CeBit launches (including some from our special reporters, who'll be reporting live from the Hannover trade-show)!


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