I want to support VIA and buy a Nano-based netbook. But two big probs:
1/ Sucky proprietary chipsets. I would never touch a Chrome unless Linux support was close to AMD, Nvidia, or Intel.
2/ Even if I wanted to, I couldn't find any available in NZ anyway.

Can't see how VIA is making any money with lame, proprietary drivers and such poor availability.

What Via really needs to do is get their act together with some Linux drivers. If you get the nerds/geeks using your products they'll spread the word. Get your act together, open up your docu like AMD is doing. Don't give us little bits to work with, it's not going to cut it.

I bought a stepnote a while back, with the C7-M in it. Biggest mistake ever. Not a shred of Linux support on the thing, constantly crashes when trying to do anything productive. It's too slow to run windows with any amount of respect imho. Picked up a dv2z-1100, best decision ever, excellent Linux support, excellent video acceleration.

Questions, why does it get slower as Model numbers get larger. for half watt, L2 cache of 1 mb is ?extraordinary.

Compared to Lesbo .oo

Oh,Oh, Never Mind.

drashek

I can think of several areas that VIA needs to strenghten itself..

1 - They need dual cores.. badly
2 - Strategic partnetship with Nvidia to get more powerfull graphics.
3 - Shrink from 65nm to 45nm to allow faster clockspeeds.
4 - They need to have products out in shops.. in my country there is only one retailer.. And im still missing the Nano cpu in any mini-itx/mATX offering from them.

I really wish they would do something more with their x86 license.

Get some fresh investment, poach from Intel, get IBM, AMD, ARM, even nVidia involved in some sort of partnership to shake up the x86 arena. AMD can't fight the good fight all by itself forever.