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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2007-07-03
I still remember the cyrix chip. Oh man it was bad, my PC would hang suddenly and so many compatibilies issue
Anyway this would make a good low cost smart client laptop. Running Windows player and browser locally and running processor intensive apps on the server via ThinServer
http://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm