14 DAY TRIAL // After just finishing its latest incursion into the motherboard market, Gigabyte is showing its stuff on the laptop segment, setting the Ultrabook concept aside and creating, instead, a new, not overly pompous notebook based on Intel's Huron River platform.
ASUS is not the only company with new mobile personal computers in the pipeline, though Gigabyte does seem to have aimed for a more approachable section of the affordability scale.
Granted, the price of the Q2532C hasn't been mentioned, but the build and looks of the product do suggest a price less steep than that of most things seen so far.
Simply put, the newcomer is a regular notebook, with nothing to stand out, whether in terms of design, performance or portability.
The memory capacity might be of up to 8 GB, but this doesn't really mean much when most laptops today have this options, or higher ones, what with the continued demand issues plaguing memory makers.
The LED-backlit panel of 15.6 inches in diagonal has a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels (HD), decent in a world where Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) or anything else above HD are steadily becoming the new standard.
That said, the central processing unit is a Celeron, Pentium or a Core i3/i5/i7 model from Intel, complete with Intel HD integrated graphics.
Also, the hard disk drive can have a capacity of 320 to 750 GB, while a DVD writer or Blu-ray optical disk drive (ODD) handles the external, optical storage factor.
Other specifications one might find on the official press release include Bluetooth 3.0, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, a 7-in-1 card reader and stereo speakers.
Finally, everything is kept operational by a 6-cell battery (inside a frame with a thickness of 34 mm) and run by the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system (OS).