Bong from Philippines has blogged a short comparison of the Astone UMPC and Asus Eee PC. He likes the generous 30Gb hard disk and touch screen found in the Astone UMPC. While he acknowledges the slight sluggish performance of the VIA CPU, particularly upon start up, he shrugs it off with the following:
After all, you […]

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On the day VIA announced the Nano processors, Legit Reviews visited Centaur Technology, the x86 CPU design company which VIA bought over in 1999. At the tour, they were able to learn more about the manufacturing process of the Nano processors and in particular, how the CPUs were tested.
Legit Reviews has also taken a bunch […]

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Timothy Brown, International Marketing Manager of VIA, talks about some of the VIA C7-M processor-based mini-notes that they have on display at Computex, including the HP 2133 and the VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design.

VIA at Computex Video - Mini-Notes
This second video shows Timothy Brown walking you through the UMDs that they have on display at […]

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Quanta Computer, a major contract manufacturer of some of the world’s biggest laptop brands, was showing a prototype of the VIA OpenBook at WiMax Expo, an exhibition which was held alongside Computex 2008. Opening the system properties of the laptop not only revealed the 1.6GHz C7-M processor and 1 Gb RAM but also Sony’s name […]

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We first reported Twinhead C8 having a resolution of 1024×600 on its 8″ screen. Recently, a reader informed us that the resolution should be 800×480. I have clarified with Twinhead and the resolution on the C8 is indeed 800×480. The dimensions of the C8 model was also incorrectly published as 250×188×36mm where it should actually […]

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