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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EEE PC 900 is $550. The 901 is set to be $650. I think $500 is well competitive with that
The specs are ballpark. If they can put an Isaiah in it when that comes out the processor should be competitive (though until then, the c7 is as noted a little anemic). Hard Drive instead of flash is a negative for some, a positive for others (space), though there's no reason someone couldn't stick a flash drive in there.
So yeah, price is a little higher than the EEE 2g surf, but $500 is lower than the current EEEs.
/disclosure: Just ordered an EEE myself. Happy with the choice. I like flash drive, and slightly smaller size. But I wouldn't rule out the OpenBook.
Edited 2008-05-28 00:46 UTC