Laptops Arena

VIA OpenBook Mini-Note laptop won the Gold Award at Computex Taipei 2008 for design and innovation.
"VIA is extremely pleased to receive this prestigious award for design and innovation," commented Richard Brown, Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies. "It certainly validates our efforts to take the VIA OpenBook to the next level of style and customization."

As you probably have noticed, the mini laptop computers industry is growing continuously, and the OpenBook is the second generation of ultra portable mini laptops, after the VIA NanoBook.
High-end features of the new model include high-speed broadband connectivity, high-quality audio/video, impressive 3D computer graphics thanks to the VIA Chrome9 DirectX 9.0, very light weight of less than 1 Kg, all these in a small form factor running with the VIA C7-M Ultra Low Voltage processor clocked at 1.6 GHz, VIA VX800 unified digital media IGP chipset, and on Microsoft Windows Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows XP, or http://www.linux.org/"> Linux.


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It sports a 8.9-inch LED display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, and provides support for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, VC1 and DiVX video formats, VMR capable HD video processor, 8-channel HD audio with 2 speakers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional A-GPS, optional WiMAX, HSDPA or EV-DO/W-CDMA 3G, 3 USB ports, VGA port, audio-in/audio-out jacks, a 4-in-1 card reader, a built-in 2MP dual-headed CCD web camera, 2GB DDR2 DRAM memory, 80GB HDD, optional Solid State Drive storage.



VIA OpenBook measures 240 x 175 mm, 36.2 mm thick, and is powered by a 4-cell battery.

TGIC Digital is launching its MX Nanobook in Korea to impress the world with a 7-inch display with 800 X 480 pixels resolution, module dock, and a VoIP unit, perfect competitor for the Eee PC.

What we know so far is that the VIA Nanobook is powered by a VIA C7-M processor at 1200 MHz, has the VIA Unichrome Pro graphics, 512MB of RAM memory, 30GB HDD storage, and connects through USB 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, and Bluetooth 2.0.

There will be no Wireless WAN, but an important feature will be the multi-format card reader the laptop will come with.
The few specs we’ve found show more options for the Windows operating system installed, and also the device’s measurements.
MX Nanobook weights 850 grams and measures 230x171x30 mm.

That’s all the info we have at the moment. We’ll keep in touch.