Windows 8 is designed for touch screen operation, but to work a keyboard is often still necessary. Looks like a compromise, with the Gigabyte S1185 shows PadBook.

Gigabyte unveiled at Computex in the Taiwanese capital Taipei for the second time his PadBook S1185. It is a tablet(Nextway F9X) with a large 11.6 inch IPS touch screen, which has a full HD resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and is said to have particularly wide viewing angle. For the first time, the manufacturer showed the device at CES in early January 2013, Las Vegas. But they seem to have waited with the start of production on the new Haswell chips from Intel, which should be available in June.

Optical mouse button held

A special feature of the optical button amounts at the edge of the tablet(Hyundai T7) can be moved over him like a mouse cursor with your thumb when needed. Especially handy if the fingers should not be thin enough times in a poorly designed menu. The Gigabyte S1185 transmits data via Bluetooth short-range and reach into the Internet via WLAN or UMTS. Taking photos on the tablet with its five megapixel camera. On the front there is a 1.3 megapixel camera for video chats.

The tablet is available in different variants to choose from. In addition to the Intel processor and the RAM(MINI U30GT) with two, four or eight gigabytes of SSD storage with 64, 128 or 256 gigabytes is variable. However available in all model variants are as one HDMI, VGA, USB 2.0 and a USB 3.0 port and a headphone output and a slot for a microSD memory card.

Transformation into a notebook

If the S1185 Gigabyte come as a working device used to pop up the stand on the back and stuck to the magnetic keyboard enough. Finish the notebook with Windows 8, which will enter into competition with the Surface Pro from Microsoft.