Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Nov 2008 09:28 UTC, submitted by caffeine deprived
Intel joined Taiwanese mobile phone service provider Chunghwa Telecom to launch Gigabyte Technology's M528 mobile Internet device on Monday in Taipei. The device, which runs a Linux OS, sports a 4.8-inch touchscreen, QWERTY keypad and 4GB solid-state drive, has an 800Mhz Intel Atom Z500 microprocessor inside. Gigabyte's specs page for the device is here.
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I have a N810, and this is probably the first true competitor. Depending on how the battery life goes, this would probably best the N810 hands down atm. The MID would be running standard linux. Moblin, intel blend, Ubuntu Mobile, pick your own poison. The N810 runs debian for arm under the hood, but it was never designed with running a regular distro in mind. With the ARM cpu, the N810 would be at a power usage advantage, but a software disadvantage against this guy.
Personally, depending on the price, i would probably take the gigabyte over N810. Having the ability to switch from some specialty intel blend, to ubuntu mobile, to whatever else crops up trumps maemo.
It IS possible to get full debian and kde onto a N810, but its a bit of a hackjob still, and alot of stuff doesnt work well. Usable, yes, but not very clean.