Ripping Open the VIA OpenBook -Video

VIa's Tim Brown rips open a VIA OpenBook mini-note to reveal the internal hardware guts and show off the PCI Express Mini Cards and 52 pin edge connectors that enable the WiMAX, HSDPA, EV-DO, W-CDMA, WiFi, Blue Tooth and AGPS connectivity for the world's most open and connected Mini-Note. The USB interface and the PCIe half-Mini Card and full-Mini Card form factor are fast becoming the industry standard with more companies developing cards and reference design cards that will make manufacturing custom VIA OpenBook mini-note designs even simpler and faster.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• VIA
• OpenBook
• WiMAX
• EV-DO
• HSDPA
• PCIe
• Minicard
• technology
• mini-note
• BlueTooth
• GPS
• Eeepc

[ZerqTM]

these filthy bastards!!!!

The modified there Artigo to support SATA internaly.

but they did not version number that model... or make a separate product homepage..

no those bastards updated tha website so everyone thinks any artigo 1000 will be fully stata compatible!

BASTARDS!!

I DEMAND MY SATA POWER CABLE!

[sonickrnd]

Love that green eyes! :)))))))

[RET80]

Is there a place to start buying kits for this thing?

[minipcpro]

you can download the CAD files of the case and of course you could change it...

these files are open source and thats why the book is called Openbook

[danwat1234]

You said those are two 56-pin USB connectors, aren't those mini-PCI Express?

If so, why can't at least one of these mini-cards be put into a Dell or HP laptop with the compatible connector?

I'd guess that these mini-cards have protection against them working in other laptops right?

[Kev50027]

Sorry, I meant the MSI Wind. Got my atmospheric words mixed up lol.

[Kev50027]

How is this any more open than say the EEE PC or the MSI Cloud? Do you foresee companies allowing consumers to replace these modules themselves, or "closing" the open book with warranty stickers?

[wongsmokesbong]

audio is slow by about .5 sec