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VIA Introduces A New Laptop Motherboard

Posted by timothy on from the treasuring-diversity dept.

arrasmith writes "It looks like there is going to be an upgrade to that non-expensive $800 Linux laptop. VIA just came out with a new laptop motherboard based on the faster Nehemiah core for the C3. You can get all the specs at the Antaur homepage. If they stay near the $800 cost I can see this one selling pretty well. And they would have a great mobile media system if they added a hardware DivX decoder on top of the hardware DVD decoder. :) And now that the Linux drivers are starting to mature and the sources are finally starting to come out, by the time this is released to the U.S. market it should be a great little Linux laptop."

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  1. I MADE IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fist post!!

    1. Re:I MADE IT! by Uber+Banker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well done. May the GNAA suck GNAA ass all night with their P3 (Piss Poor Perl) scripts.

  2. First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I pity da fool that dont get FP!!!

  3. Re:Who needs hardware DivX... by Uber+Banker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh dear...

  4. 21164 Alpha PDA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was reading on Linuxgames.com's cache that someone was in-progress designing and implementing a small (3" x 4") circuit board to seat and support an integrated 21164 Alpha CPU as well as USB/Firewire/Cardbus, 64MBX2 RAID ROM/512MB RAM, and a dual Radeon 7500 (for quad-head LCD display).

    I saw a schematic and the guy was making good progress, already having the four LCD panels designed to convert a Radeon's VGA signal to LCD, and was still working with designing a PCI bridge and Memory Controller. The 64MB ROM, IIRC, was actualy interfaced using a integrated Mylex SCSI UltraWide RAID controller of somekind; allowing external SCSI devices to be connected as well.

    I haven't read anything about the project and was wondering if anyone heard of its status or at-least has anyone heard of any other projects similar to a homebrew PDA? I know I'm not the only person drooling over an Alpha-based PDA.

    Sincer..., ...

  5. Re:Real men build their own refrigerators... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And while your doing that, I'll be over here screwing these honies...

  6. Re:We've got Linux laptops now, but... by Idou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't believe a word you say . . .

    (if you don't know Japanese, don't mod this)

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  7. Re:FROSTED PISS POSTS! by luckybob83 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    someone nuke this post (GNAA)

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    If there is nothing left worth living, what are you willing to die for?
  8. in unrelated news... by 0x12d3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    certain sites have noticed increase traffic. All your WEP (abtu).

  9. Video card drivers by vivek7006 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have been observing that most of the notebooks dont use Nvidia graphic cards. Instead they prefer using Radeon mobile or some cheaper on-board cards. This is problem for me, because I am looking to buy a notebook on which I will install linux. Nvidia has fantastic linux drivers, so I wont have to worry about hardware 3D acceleration, if I buy a notebook with Nvidia graphic card. But I just dont see any notebooks in the market with Nvidia graphic cards.

    How does Radeon behave under linux in notebooks? . How is the 3D acceleration in mobile Radeon 8500+ ? Are the opensource drivers good for full screen DVD playbacks? (I usually test hardware acceleration by playing TuxRacer)