Sony appears to be ready to ship a notebook based on the VIA OpenBook reference design. A prototype by Quanta Computer was apparently spotted at the WiMax Expo.
A check of the laptop’s properties confirmed the laptop is based on a 1.6GHz C7-M processor from Via and listed Sony as the manufacturer. When the existence of Sony’s name on the machine was pointed out to a Quanta executive manning the booth, he quickly closed the properties window and declined to explain why Sony was listed as the manufacturer.
The VIA OpenBook is a reference design for a sub-notebook that was released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. For more information on the design, go to viaopenbook.com
Yahoo News [via Engadget]