VIA OpenBook Mini-Note Platform Preview

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 27, 2008 1:57 PM EDT
PC Perspective; By Ryan Shrout
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You wouldn't know it by looking at the market today, but VIA Technologies was really the original mainstream company to be the proponent of the "mini-notebook" market that has become epitomized by the ASUS Eee PC. Last June VIA demonstrated and showed off a device called the VIA NanoBook at Computex in Taipei; essentially a very small form factor laptop with Windows XP on it. Looking at it next to the current generations of the Eee PC and you'd be hard pressed to find significant differences. The single area that VIA failed to address was actually PUSHING their devices into the market - we never really found them in the US and they never took off.

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