VIA Announces The OpenBook
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The hardware behind the VIA OpenBook includes a VIA C7-M ULV processor, VIA VX800 Chipset, WiMAX, 3G wireless, and a 4-cell Lithium Ion battery. VIA claims this new notebook has a maximum power draw of just 3.5 Watts and it can idle with as little as 0.1 Watts. Pricing, however, has not been set.
More information on the VIA OpenBook is available from the press release or the new OpenBook website.
For the record, earlier this year VIA had announced their new open-source intentions but that was greeted by some mixed feelings from developers. Since these new open efforts have come about, VIA has contributed a 16,434 line kernel frame-buffer driver but we're still waiting on more code and technical documentation from this company.
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