Ubergadget reports;

Hewlett-Packard has recently placed orders for VIA Nano CPUs and VIA have already started shipping. It is not known whether HP will use the CPUs in it’s notebooks or netbook series. VIA has said that in addition to previous orders from Chinese companies , the company also has orders from a notebook manufacturer and the product will appear in the market by October this year. As for VIA’s C7-M processor used in HP’s 2133 Mini-Note PC, the total volume that HP has ordered is a little over 500,000, which shows that HP expects to ship at least half a million 2133 Mini-Note PCs by the end of this year.

Via has released the details of its successor to the Nanobook, called the Openbook.

It’s a reference design that will be re-badged and tweaked by manufacturers just like the Nanobook was (Belinea’s S.book 1 and Packard Bell’s Easynote XS used Via’s older design).

Powered by the VIA C7-M ULV processor and the VIA VX800 digital media IGP chipset, the VIA OpenBook mini-note reference design is a small, 1kg, 8.9″ mini-notebook form factor design that supports screen resolutions of up to 1024×600 and high performance VIA Chrome9â„¢

DirectXâ„¢ 9.0 3D graphics. Advanced video acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, VC1 and DiVX video formats, a VMR capable HD video processor and 8-channel HD audio make it a highly media rich mini-notebook platform.

 

http://www.viaopenbook.com

 

It was inevitable, was it not? With the success of HP’s 2133 Mini-Note, it was pretty obvious that the outfit would be working up a second edition, and according to Jerel Chong, HP Australia’s Market Development Manager for Notebook PCs, it’s already “looking at a similar device but at a lower cost.” Reportedly, the lower cost low-cost laptop will be ready for budget-conscience consumers sometime before 2009, though we have no idea what corners will be cut in order to hack down the price. Mr. Chong did mention that the cheaper edition would be less “durable,” but considering that we never viewed the original as a Toughbook replacement, we’re not so sure what he’s really getting at. Nevertheless, those looking seriously at the more business-minded 2133 may want to hold off, but good luck suppressing that insatiable desire to be instantly gratified.

lightweight has reported that The XP edition of the MiniNote will come with the media to install XP and the drivers but not with XP actually installed on it I think this is good news, as it ensures that you can do a fresh install if you need to. Installing windows is very easy and you get as many attempts at it as you want, so if you are unhappy just try installing again it will teach you a little more about computers if nothing else. XP runs very well on the mini note so this is something to look forward to.

Theirs a blog entry on kdedevelopers.org that is claiming the MIniNote is able to run kde 4. It also has a nice picture of the mininote

source; http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3398

First, sorry about not posting for a while I have had the flu, so I’m a bit late with this. Engadget has up some photos of the mininote being unboxed.

PHOTOS

Not sure how the guy got it so early but good on him. I need to add a pictures section to this site…

Link to the article

Lee