Pricey Brown Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X Receives Brownie Points For Touchscreen and Build Quality

Brad over at Liliputing has done an exhaustive review of the Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X, a $699 convertible tablet that started shipping just two weeks ago.  It scored high in touchscreen responsiveness and build quality, while the performance was slightly below average in some tasks.

Here are just a few takeaways:

• High resolution 1366 x 768 pixels touchscreen which is pleasantly responsive to a finger or stylus,  but isn’t bright as other netbook screens.
• Performance is “snappy” when doing light weight tasks, but feels choppy when having 7 tabs open in Firefox, a problem not usually encountered in other netbooks Brad explains.
• Choppy when viewing videos on Hulu and some other Flash based video sites on full-screen mode
• Solid swivel mechanism that is not shaky.
• A heavy netbook at 3.3 lbs, most likely due to the 6-cell battery that protrudes out from the back.
• Includes an ExpressCard slot, a big plus for a netbook, along with three access panels to easily get to your RAM and hard drive.
• Full sized edge-to-edge keyboard is large and had good feedback mechanism, while the touchpad is wide but has the buttons are on the side rather than on the top or bottom, a slap in the face for some.
• Battery lasts for 5 hours under realistic conditions such as WiFi on and 60% brightness.

How does it compare with the $499 Asus Eee PC T91 convertible tablet reviewed a few weeks ago? At just a mere glance, it is obvious that the sleek T91 looks much more appealing than this pooh colored Gigabyte, which is also heavier and clunkier looking at least. But the Asus comes with Intel’s turtlerific 1.33GHz Z520 CPU while the Gigabyte sports the more common N270 1.66 GHz. The T91 scored low on touchscreen responsiveness but does include a start-up software called Touch Gate.

Head over to Liliputing for a more detailed analysis and more pictures and videos.