Everex to stun the world with 9-inch CloudBook, DevBook, mini desktop
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jan 17th 2008 12:47AM
posted Jan 17th 2008 12:47AM
According to rumblings on the internet, the new Cloudbook from Everex that's worming its way into Wal-Marts across the US this weekend will be getting a big brother soon. If you believe what they say (they being Paul Kim, director of marketing at Everex), we can expect a 9-inch version of the Eee-competitor to make an appearance in June, boasting a larger keyboard, more memory, and possibly new "skins" (but please, no tattoos). The Linux-equipped computer will clock in around $500, and will be part of the Ubuntu-based gOS family. The company also has plans to introduce a variant of the smaller CloudBook called the DevBook, a $400-500 laptop aimed at developers with a touchscreen and swappable side-panel accessories, plus a $399 standard size 15.4-inch laptop, and a "mini" desktop with a dual-layer DVD drive, as well as DVI and S-Video outputs for $499.[Via Eee Site]
With the same lousy VIA processor. No thanks. Give me an eeepc with a 9" screen and I'm getting one.
Ugh. $400 for a 15.4" laptop with those specs is not a great deal.
For $450 at WorstBuy this week, you can get a 1.6ghz Pentium Dual Core (Core 2 Duo with cut back L2 cache), 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD, dual layer DVD-RW, 15.4" Screen, the usual 802.11b/g, and a free after rebate printer (which will probably be junk but i'm sure some relative will leach it off you). Although Vista Home Premium will probably make it feel like a 1.2Ghz VIA.
For a Benjamin and Grant or what some people spent at some stuck up coffee shop for a week (although those people usually have Macbooks), you can step up to an Acer with an dual core AMD Turion X2, 2GB RAM, GeForce 7000m graphics, 160GB HDD, dual layer DVD-RW, 15.4" screen. Not bad for $600 and will even run Vista semi decently.
don't mind the tech snobs
if it works for ya, buy it
getting stuck in the OS bloatware wormhole is not something you want on light hardware
if all you're doing is browsing the internet, editing photos and documents, listening to music, and watching video, the os doesn't matter anymore.
I'm not so sure about the OS not mattering. I've used gOS, and its not an experience I would recommend to anyone.
If you want to go to some website, OS doesn't matter. But if you want go to most website, OS does matter. To start, real video, mpg, wmv, then you have the ones with DRM. Some website requires activeX, and many other plug-ins. So OS kinda of matters.
For one, acer doesnt have a great battery life track record. I have an acer and it sucks. I wouldnt mind something like that, the eee pc is great till you put xp on it and the ram gets owned by the writes. SSD is a great idea, but it has limits too. The price kinda makes me mad tho, oh well, thats how it works
A laptop with a touchscreen? Does that imply that it is NOT a tablet, and therefore that the screen does not flip over and fold flat, and therefore is COMPLETELY useless?
However, I'm not all that disappointed. Im actually rather glad that Asus isn't all alone in this market. Ultraportables and other such devices are likely the next big thing, since most people don't care about power apps on the road. I don't think anyone really needs to be playing Crysis during meetings or class, so these are exactly what such people need; something cheap, reliable, small, and not necessarily all that fast. I'm definitely getting one of they can get some competition going in this market.
Some pics would be nice, and nothing about it coming to Europe?
Hinke
Some pics would be nice, and nothing about it coming to Europe?
Hinke
Isn't that Incase's logo?
"With the same lousy VIA processor. No thanks. Give me an eeepc with a 9" screen and I'm getting one."
I have the wibrain with the same processor/chipset and ic actually handles really well so far- esp. the graphics handling in the chipset I have been running both games and maya/cinema 4d on the machine without a problem (running in open gl) the big thing with the via is that it saves a ton of power for the size- I get more battery life from the wibrain than I do from my psp, both the fat and slim
I like the sound of that DevBook.
Im still looking at an Eee, but that DevBook sounds nice to me.
Ill have to wait till we get some more formal announcement with specs, pics, and other info.
If its comparable to the Eee, and there is a good community, I might go DevBook.