So, night one of Computex 2008. I spent all night last night flying and got lots of use out of my ipod and OQO. I found that trying to listen to some of the tech podcasts you can get from iTunes on the flight would make me nod off. But the shorter ones, like the one from Extreme Tech, were just the right length to keep me interested. Some of the gaming ones were just a waste of space on my iPod. It's amazing what people podcast about. I hate the ones that start off talking about something interesting, then wander off in some crazy direction that has nothing to do with what the podcast was meant to be about.

After the long flight it was great (not) to find that my room was not ready and I had to kill an hour and a half waiting for it to be set up!

After freshening up and downloading some 2000+ spam emails I headed off to the Gigabyte party at the Tavern. I stopped in to pick up some old friends from VIA that where busy setting up their booth at the TICC building. Bringing my camera along paid off as I got some of the first sneak peeks of what VIA is showing off this year!

All the mini-notes on VIA's booth are amazing, really pathing the way for small light portable computing. There is something for everyone, from the OQOv2 right up to a 13.5" HP - all boasting VIA CPUs. It's great to see someone like HP getting behind the mini-note. The HP 2133 7" Mini-Note sure is something I'm dying to get my hands on, and for about $500 it's going to be easy to do so. It's just the right size and weight for on the road writing/surfing, and even some simple games if you need to kill some time. Today I'll be getting my feet sore looking around the showto see. I'll see what juicy news I can get you all ...

Check out this pink VIA NanoBook - not my style, but some Barbie fan-girls might actually like doing their homework on it!