Do you own a small fabricating plant in Taiwan? Do you have an engineering team of ten PhDs? Do you want to make small laptops? Has VIA got a deal for you. The VIA OpenBook reference design is not actually a product — it’s more of an idea. Because it is ostensibly open (the CAD plans are available on the VIAOpenBook site) you simply buy the chips from VIA and use the plans to build your own cases, keyboards, and I/O systems. What does this mean to you and me? Not much, unless we want to mill our own laptop parts out of plastic.
VIA isn’t really selling anything here other than its own motherboards and chips. The laptop portion is a bit of lip service to openness that corporations like to pay just to get their piece of the “open” mindshare. While the potential is there — mini laptops with powerful features hand-crafted by Cuban virgins out of sandalwood and jade come to mind — let’s just call this an advertisement for a mobile computing platform and leave it at that.
All we need now is cheap 3d printers and lets start making our own laptops.
Sounds like “build your own v.22bis 1200/2400 bits/sec modem” — at the time when the world was using 300 bits/sec modems… some 25 years ago..
At least, back then, there’s some upside.. got n times the connection speed (with no service to connect to!!
Now, this, what’s the point?.. clueless…
The features i like about Nanu Note book are , sleek design, 8.9 inches screen, dual web cam, back panel recording for lecture recording. Super machine to carry while traveling.
Never seen the camera on the other side in any laptop. And it consumes less power, I’d buy it.
But you’re right, the laptop isn’t their main concern, the word VIA is.
Wow..everyone is going for open source.
The camera in the back is open-source tool for freaks.
but the download links are broken!!
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