Raon Digital Everun Note gets a price, brochure

Raon Digital hasn't exactly been keeping many secrets about its Everun Note "UMPC notebook," but it's now finally dropped the veil of mystery around one of the biggest still remaining: the price, and it's also now detailed everything else in convenient brochure form. As UMPC Portal reports, the Everun Note will boast a suggested retail price of $879, which puts it well below the likes of the VAIO UX but considerably more than your average netbook, which it also kinda, sorta competes with. Oh, the perils of bucking the usual product categories. Hit up the read link below for the full brochure.

[Yay. @ Sep 1st 2008 5:34PM]

Wow, look where the quote-key is!

Oh dear.

[Mush @ Sep 1st 2008 5:42PM]

what quote key? lol

[Yay. @ Sep 1st 2008 5:48PM]

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[Don @ Sep 1st 2008 6:00PM]

Speaking of Quotes.. look at that quote.... $800
Good Lord

[d00b @ Sep 1st 2008 7:08PM]

If you want power in an ultraportable, the Thinkpad X61 (C2D T8100) is listing for $918 on the Lenovo web site. Kick in the 8-cell batt for another $37, and it kills this Raon in every way--keyboard, power, battery life, build quality, etc etc.

[sinjinn @ Sep 1st 2008 8:41PM]

@doob

my desktop pc kills my pda in every way too.. but i cant fit it in my pocket

[d00b @ Sep 1st 2008 11:09PM]

Thanks for the note. At first glance I thought it was a 9" or 10" screen like the rest of the netbooks. After checking the specs, I see it's a 7". Still, at 5"x8", if you can fit this into your pocket then you've got one hell of a pair of pants!

At least it explains the weirdly squished keyboard. I'm kinda curious about it now, about the perf of the Turion X2 and whatever chipset it uses. Always on the lookout for alternatives.

[Jonathan Tyler @ Sep 1st 2008 5:42PM]

That is one wacky keyboard. I guess they had to charge extra for the engineering marvel of shoving useful keys in the F row.

And that price is insane.

Get a real laptop for that price! With a real keyboard and not that pos!

[petrik zviera @ Sep 1st 2008 5:58PM]

I gues your regular laptop has 200mm x 118mm x 28mm and weights 742g like this one.
Please learn more, before you post anything.

[Jonathan Tyler @ Sep 1st 2008 5:59PM]

The typical netbook has a keyboard that is simply shrunk down from regular size and doesn't do crap like this one does with moving keys around into non-standard places.

I know a fair bit about laptops, but thanks for calling my knowledge of gadgets into question. Because, you know, only simpletons come here and spell horrible and troll other people's comments.

Sorry to see that someone peed in your cornflakes this morning!

[Jonathan Tyler @ Sep 1st 2008 6:00PM]

Spell horrible.

I win!

[Chuckles McGee @ Sep 1st 2008 6:04PM]

What I don't understand is why with all these miraculously shrinking keyboards the frickening caps lock key remains so massive. Hardly anyone ever needs to turn that darn thing on, and even if they did once in a fortnight, they could just as easily find it amongst the F keys.

[sockatume @ Sep 1st 2008 6:09PM]

It's an interesting layout, alright. Prioritises regular typing at the cost of borking secondary keys. Probably a pretty good trade-off, all things considered, but ruining the cursors may be a step too far.

[petrik zviera @ Sep 1st 2008 6:19PM]

I am sorry Jonathan, but this is not a laptop. This is UMPC, so your knowledge
about laptops doesn't aply at this product. Please, start study.
BTW I don't eat cornflakes but meat, like real man with brain do.

[Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) @ Sep 1st 2008 5:55PM]

My main concern is the Turion X2 in that small a case, even if clocked at a relatively low 1.2ghz. Its nice to see a dual core 64 bit processor in this form factor but the Turions run pretty hot, at least it did in my Compaq V3000.

And the battery life is to be seen as well. I hear its around 2 hours but you can also connect an external battery to it which also has an ethernet jack on it.

Anyways, I'm getting a bit sick of seeing all the netbooks with 8.9" screens with 1024x600 resolution and 1.6ghz Atom processors, nice to see something different in the market.

[Steve Paine @ Sep 1st 2008 6:05PM]

Yup, strange KB layout but it does give the 16mm pitch for the common keys which will be a step up from the SC3.

Questions to answer:
- Battery life (Raon usually do a good engineering job. Expect low-power, long battery life and high-power, short battery life options with those PS and AUTO buttons!)
- Is it really that powerful (twice as powerful, CPU-wise and GPU-Wise, as a netbook)
- How is the optical mouse.
- Can you really use it as a USB drive
- How's the lay-flat tablet experience. (Its got a touchscreen)

The price is a bargain for such a powerful mini-pc. If you need mobility rather than netbook tabletopping, this is the one to keep watching.
If not, Asus 901, MSI Wind, LG X110...etc. Take your tabletopping pic!

Steve.

[Steve Paine @ Sep 1st 2008 6:06PM]

here here!

[pdiddy @ Sep 1st 2008 6:58PM]

LONG time everun user commenting here. my 2cents.

Pros:
Optical mouse button is instantly addicting. Very intuitive, can't believe it hasn't been picked up in other UMPC/mid devices.
Will scale to different resolutions. 800x480 1024x768 with the push of a button.
Can be used as a usb drive! great feature. Only when device has been shut all the way down. Doesn't work in hibernate or standby.
Engineering of everun is very good. Sturdy device.
Resume from standby is almost instant.

Cons:
Bluetooth drivers were bug-FILLED.
Has quite a few software bugs, they never got them fixed, only released 1 wave of software/driver updates. Chances are that the bugs it gets released with will be permenant (depending on sales).

For more info:
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=18

[Dr Zoidberg @ Sep 1st 2008 6:24PM]

Do most people who aren't techies know who this company is? because most of the population aren't techies and have never heard of this company, so with the funky design and keyboard layout and coming from a company that alot of people have never heard of, does it really justify an $875 pricetag?

Damn it - I answered my own question...

[sinjinn @ Sep 1st 2008 8:55PM]

raon digital has made a couple of umpcs. the everun is supposed to be a very good device and extremely well made with long battery life..

real umpc fans hate wasted space, they dont like the touchpad because its a waste of space , they hate borders around the screen because its a waste of space . this is the most compact umpc with a usable keyboard from a company that has experience and has a good track recoed , ofcourse they will buy it.

[Dr Zoidberg @ Sep 2nd 2008 6:21AM]

What I'm saying is, do most non-techies know this company, also the price is high for what your getting and the design is quite questionable looking (especially the keyboard), so would this really sell in a place where there aren't people who know this company, or to people who think good design is needed, or to people who need a cheap UMPC.

[Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) @ Sep 1st 2008 6:27PM]

Too bad the screen cannot swivel into a tablet given it has a touchscreen.
Oh well......

[x3qt0r @ Sep 1st 2008 6:38PM]

small - smaller - smallest

am talking about the average key sizes in netbooks.

[GenoMalice @ Sep 1st 2008 6:50PM]

im tired of these 1-square-inch-sized-palmtops.... unless ur less than 13 years old or over 65... grow some balls and get a 13.3"+ laptop like the rest of us manly men!

[petrik zviera @ Sep 1st 2008 7:28PM]

I am tired of carrying around , to my car, out of my car, to my customers, out of my customers,
to my office out of my office , my 15"+ laptop. This is going to be a perfect powerful UMPC with HSDPA
card for all my needs.

[morcheeba @ Sep 1st 2008 11:03PM]

You should be using an Osborne 1 like me, because that's what all of us real men carry around. Big LCDs are too fragile and are for wimps - a solid 5 inch monochrome CRTs is where it's at. Anything under 23 pounds isn't really going to be comfortable to type on.

[Paulo Lima @ Sep 1st 2008 7:49PM]

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[kbsig106 @ Sep 1st 2008 9:06PM]

AMD will toast your nuts - forget burning your legs with a 14"

[Brett @ Sep 2nd 2008 2:51PM]

RAON DIGITAL EVERUN Note PDF brochure is avaialble here:

http://downloads.conics.net/everun/everun_note.pdf

should be availble from approx 19th September!