After playing with a Motorola Atrix with the 'PC dock' at a phone store, I really felt like it was the next big step for smartphones. Having a powerful smartphone is one thing, but it remains restricted by limited screen real estate and lousy text entry methods. Being able to expand it into a full PC via HDMI and Bluetooth keyboard 'n mouse is really quite impressive. The only complaint I had about using the Atrix as a PC was that it was sluggish, perhaps something a quad-core CPU could fix, no?

I remember that Abit gave people without much money to spend (me) the power to live the life of workstation users.

I will never forget the feeling of POSTing 450MHz on my overclocked Celeron 300A processor with an Abit BH6. I saved a ton of money versus buying a 450MHz P-III, yet had pretty much the same performance. (This setup, plus a 3dFX Voodoo card rocked my gaming world at the time.) My parents still use that overclocked machine, reliably, to this day.

Then the Abit BP6 came out, which allowed anyone to buy two cheap Celeron's and have a dual CPU machine. I had two Celeron 500's running at 550MHz, with BeOS as my operating system. It was computing nirvana that I haven't experienced since.

Sure, Abit did produce a few flaky motherboard models, just like every other mobo company. However, they released some very unique boards for enthusiasts that no other company had balls to produce.