VIA OpenBook
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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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.

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.
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