Just a few days after announcing their VIA Mini-Note OpenBook Reference Design, the new platform has won the Computex Taipei design and innovation Gold Award for 2008. Here’s a snippet of the press release from VIA:
Event organizers Computex Taipei and the Taiwan Design Center selected iF International Forum Design GmbH to preside over the award […]

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Engadget has gotten its hands on the VIA OpenBook. Here’s their short review:
We got to spend a little bit of time with a prototype of VIA’s new OpenBook reference design, and while it’s not going to revolutionize anything, VIA does seem to have a pretty good grasp on the balance of value, size and power […]

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These photos of VIA OpenBook were taken from the download section of VIA OpenBook website. Since you need to register an account to access these photos, I thought I will just post them here.

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A first look and introduction to the VIA OpenBook Mini-Note Reference Design with VIA VP of International Marketing, Richard Brown.

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The year 2007 saw the release of the NanoBook reference design, a design platform for the emerging UMPC (ultra mobile PC) market. Since then, numerous vendors have adopted the design and released NanoBooks like the Everex Cloudbook, Zyrex Ubud and Astone UMPC.
Now, a year later, VIA has released the second generation VIA OpenBook reference design. […]

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