Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th May 2008 22:11 UTC, submitted by SReilly
The idea of open-source hardware is slowly slowly but surely gaining traction. VIA Technologies, Inc., joined in on the fun today by unveiling an open source reference platform for low power notebooks, based on its own processor technology (obviously). The CAD files have been released under a Creative Commons license. The machine is tentatively named OpenBook.
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There are benchmarks of the VIA C7 and the Intel Celeron and Atom processors on the internet. Please check them out before you decide to buy a VIA based system.