Digital Home Thoughts: Gigabyte Bridges the Netbook and the Nettop

"Gigabyte said it'd be showing off a trio of new netbooks at CeBIT this week and, lo and behold, all three have now emerged from their less than secretive whereabouts and made their public debut, and the good folks from Engadget Chinese were on hand for an up close look. While all three pack more or less the same standard netbook specs, they do manage to differentiate themselves quite a bit from each other around the edges..."

The standard netbook and tablet version are pretty much expected at this point, but I like the idea of the center one. Basically, it includes a vertical dock with connectors to hook up to a full size monitor and other peripherals, giving you in essence a netbook and a nettop. If priced similarly to other netbooks, you could easily pair this with a nice sized monitor and have a desktop and laptop solution that would satisfy modest users for somewhere between $500 and $600.