It’s been a while since VIA introduced its OpenBook reference design. A good long while. But now it looks like at least one company is preparing to release a VIA Nano-powered mini-notebook based on the OpenBook design. Dr. Mobile will be showing its FreeStyle Mini netbook at CES this week. The laptop features an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel…

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VIA may be focusing its attention on the chip company’s new OpenBook reference design for tiny, low-power laptops. But it looks like some PC and electronics makers are still pumping out systems based on VIA’s older NanoBook reference design. Mike Cane spotted a new PC at J&R over the weekend that looked suspiciously like an Everex Cloudbook, but which sported…

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Sure, VIA may have published all the specs for its new OpenBook reference design online. But nothing beats a good video of the insides of a new laptop. So VIA’s Tim Brown shot a little notebook looks like with its case taken apart.The OpenBook isn’t in production yet, so we’re looking at a prototype here. And VIA won’t be marketing…

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I’m starting to think Sascha from Eee PC News.de has too many mini-laptops on his hands. OK, there’s really no such thing. But Sascha got a chance to stop by VIA headquarters in Taipei and snapped more than a dozen photos of a new VIA Openbook prototype. It’s the one on the far left int he image above (the other…

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It looks like Sony may be planning to launch a low cost ultraportable this fall. IDG reports that system maker Quanta, )which takes contract orders for PCs which are then sold under other brand names) , was showing off a computer based on the VIA OpenBook reference design at the WiMax Expo in Taipei. Under the system properties, Sony was…

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Chip maker VIA has introduced the new OpenBook reference design for low cost, light weight ultraportable laptops. The company’s earlier Nanobook reference design was the basis for a number of ultraportables, the most recognizable probably being the Everex Cloudbook. So it’s not that surprising to see that the previously announced Cloudbook Max (due out in 2009) will be built on…

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