If you've been listening to the
Engadget Podcast, you know that Taiwan's Dr. Mobile is our new favorite fly-by-night Asian netbook vendor, and VIA's showing off its Nano-powered Freestyle Mini here at CES in a darkened restaurant. (Seriously!) Internally, it's basically a smaller version of the 11.6-inch
Freestyle we played with a few days ago, but it's in a more traditional netbook package with an 8.9-inch screen. We were pretty blunt in asking the VIA rep why the Nano's basically been a no-show during 2008's Atom explosion, and while we didn't get a straight answer, it sounds like 2009 might be the year the battle for netbook platform dominance is finally joined -- the Freestyle and the Freestyle Mini should be available in the next few months. Dr. Mobile, paging Dr. Mobile.
posted Jan 9th 2009 6:46PM
2009 will only be the year of the netbook if via manage to get their processors out.
Anyone see this. Not that funny. Topolsky must be in on it.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5127794/the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-did-at-ces-this-year