Everex Cloudbook teardown bares all
By Paul Miller 
posted Feb 27th 2008 10:27AM
posted Feb 27th 2008 10:27AM
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"and how to open up the laptop without voiding your warranty"
WIN!
LOL There's like nothing in there !
I would have made the entire thing with no moving parts and added a small SSD to it. Or at least, high speed SD Card
Much like your skull! You two are practically brothers!
zeus
Your name implies you have delusions of godhood and your icon is lame.
They aren't delusions, as I am, in fact, a God.
By the way, you must not play or even like games (that or you're too young to know anything about it) to think my icon is lame. Besides, what really matters is that your reply is lame- and I'm glad we're in agreement that your head is as empty as this Cloudbook, given that you have yet to deny it.
Good day.
Zeus,
You fail.
LiqwidZero,
Keep dreamin'. I never fail.
Yeah, Zeus.:God actually fails quite often, but I'll ignore that for now. He's mostly right in this scenario, although the joke was far from great.
It's pretty obvious that Flashpoint knows slim to none about computers and Zeus.:God called him out on it.
@ Flashpoint
Empty? Have you ever seen a laptop with a double-sided motherboard before? R500 or Eee come to mind?
The Cloudbook isn't supposed to compete with the Eee. If it had 4-8 GB flash and still cost $100 more than the Eee, no one would buy it. The HDD is its number one selling point. Furthermore, a high speed SD (C6) is definitely half as fast as a slow HDD (4200 RPM). It's also less reliable and costs more per gigabyte.
There's nothing wrong with moving parts. It's all this stupid-ass marketing telling you that moving parts are the devil. How many laptops don't have SSDs but are still usable. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I've NEVER seen a laptop's HDD fail. Ever.
Every time you link to that "Eee PC-level hackerdom" it makes me want to buy it. A few more links might put me over the edge.
Yeah I've had an EEE on my desk since November, really haven't done anything with it yet. More links!
i've only had my Eee for about 2 weeks but i love it. i put XP Pro on it and it flies. i do want to do a Blue-tooth upgrade but i dont think i have the guts or skill to do so. a wireless mouse without the USB dongle would be sick.
no im gonna go back to trying to install Steam to a 16GB SD card so i can get my ultramobile Portal on!!
"...He's already spotted a way to add Bluetooth internally..."
Shhhhhhh! Dammit don't tell people that, that's a secret. They are hard enough to find in stock, now I will never be able to get one.
Show me a laptop that you can't add bluetooth. Simplest mod ever.
You missed the critical word "internally".
Ok, internally. Still simplest mod ever. If you can open the case, you can add Bluetooth. I don't care what laptop it is.
That three minute boot time is the killer for me though. I want to like this thing for the storage space, but it's rough edges are too much.
Put your case back on, You filthy FILTHY whore! I just hate seeing young gadgets take their clothes off just to be in news. And how dare you run this story Engadget? This site is becoming more and more like roboporn.net and robotica.org. FOR SHAME!
(/me wonders if those two addresses are real)
Yawn.
"a highly-anticipated device"
Thats pushing it
I was about to type in the same thing. No one cares about this.... (hopefully)
I would get it but why? i can buy a eee pc for same price with 4 gigs memory versus this crappy 30 gig hard drive, i mean 30 gig is a over kill, should have made it 2 gig, next thing you know its also going to have an expansion card slot. for my money i rather have a 4 gig ee pc, why would i want 30 gig, i mean sure it will run windows xp and wow and a crap load of videos and a ton of music for the same price as a eee , but a Eee is soo cool for the fan boys
hacks on a just released device are not as advanced as hacks on one that is months old film at 11
OMG the pix are to big for my screen. Damn my 15" laptop...
Cloudbook + Isaiah + SSD = > EEEpc.
Shame about the weird trackpad. It's probably the one thing that makes this worse than Eeepsie.