VIA Introduces A New Laptop Motherboard

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 9, 2003 @10:40AM 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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Question by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-09 10:45 · Score: 0, Troll

Does it run linux?
Re:$800! by parkanoid · 2003-07-09 12:45 · Score: 0, Troll

And how much does it weight? Even the current Via is under 3 pounds. I would much rather go with a light and thin (just look at the pictures) sub-notebook with a slightly underpowered processor (and, mind you, Via has improved a lot in performance) that fits into my backpack, rather than a 7-pound lumbering monster that deep-fries your lap. And Celeron is a sucky processor, too.