Something for nvidia, abit and gigabyte?

they dont opensource the whole laptop, just the exterior design, they allow you just to be able to make new faceplates for the thing... (and then shove em up wherever you can, cause they arent building em unless the design is just freaking awesome and you dont ask a dime for your effort) so not that revolutionary... not that do it in your backyard suff... you would need lots of money to get the machinerry to make the faceplates and buy their components and place it on stores arround the world....

Where is my Isaiah? I've been waiting for a few months to get my hands on a UMPC with an Isaiah processor in it. I would think if Via is launching a new open laptop design they would use the press coverage to plug their soon (maybe?) to be release new processor. Should I not be holding my breathe waiting for the release?

Does the laptop still use a prorpitary, closed source bios, or is Via releasing that as well?

To be fair, once the dimensions of all the components are available, it will not take long for even a small company to start making the laptop-shells. They might not assemble everything, but once the shells start showing up, I'm sure other companies will jump at the opportunity to make their own laptops.