Raon Digital's Everun Note "premium" netbook unboxed on video
By Tim Stevens 
posted September 5th 2008 12:01PM
posted September 5th 2008 12:01PM
Alas, it was just last month that the Everun Note got official, and yet here it is already having its packaging torn asunder on video. Raon Digital's tiny 7-inch offering packs a 1.2GHz AMD Turion CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 12GB SSD. UMPC Portal's hand model loves the size, build quality, features, and most notably the performance, but we're still having a hard time getting over the $879 asking price, and that modified keyboard layout with punctuation keys in the upper-right would be a liability in our Friday night blogger WPM deathmatches. (Winner gets the early shift on Monday!) Video after the break.
Sweet Moses that thing is tiny.
I think it looks great.
+1 to the designer.
For $500 less I can get the Dell Mini.
Good for you, now go buy it.
So... What exactly makes this lil' bugger so 'premium'?
I, perosnally, find it to be shockingly overpriced.
Dual-core processor
Dedicated 128 MB Graphics
Touchscreen
Super Ultra Portable
I don't think it's overpriced, man. It's expensive, but well worth it, if you have the budget.
And comes with 80GB HD or 120 SSD. Man this is huge in many ways.
Cute but sadly the keyboard is only good enough for typing in websites and commenting here on Engadget, can't do much typing on that. I see it more like an entertainment companion on journeys.
You mean you cant do much typing or rather punctuated typing on it because the punctuation keys are off on some other area of the keyboard therefore people with this subnotebook are going to be typing like this and is going to suck for school not that a lot of peoples punctuation is much better than this anyways.
run on sentences ftw
@ Andrew
The period and comma are at their normal locations on the keyboard.
This one looks incredibly nice. Too bad it's priced way too high. If this was $450 I would have bought it yesterday.
Price is about right due to dual core CPU and 3G. My only wish is for a swivel-screen. Intel, where are your Atom dual core processors?
Ahhh... AMD/2x and Touch Screen... Hmm?
I guess those are the 'premium' features... Me - I'll Pass until it drops below the 400 US treshold.
"Premium" netbook? No. Its an UMPC. Why does engadget call everything now "netbook"? This is not the Psion Netbook, you know...
The spec sheets had said it would come with a 60 or 80gb HDD, I forgot which.
i can't justify paying over 800 smackers for this thing. i feel like i would use it twice and then convert it to paperweight status. you have to have crooked patent drawing hands to type on this little bastard.
No not really.
....and what's the point of these things again?
To annoy you.
You're a student and you want to type your notes in class. Your anatomy book weighs 4 lbs and your pharmacology book weighs 3 lbs. You're 5'2" and weigh 110 lbs soaking wet. You don't want to lug around a 5 lbs notebook so you get a netbook that weighs 2.2 lbs instead. It doesn't sound like a lot at first glance but spend enough time on your feet and you'll feel the difference at the end of the day.
retard
@Patrick
Run while you still can. This career choice is NO LONGER WORTH IT. If you're spending more time here, than you are on medscape, then again, run before it's too late.
Great device, not over priced at all but it's quiet expensive. If it had a bigger screen and slightly bigger keyboard and was priced $650 I'd buy it in no time.
I HATE THOSE FEDEX BOXES!
Quite cute. I'd hit that up with Reason.
If I wanted something that small, I wouldve gotten the G1 eeepc. the keys are way too small to be useful for touch typing. my aspire one is big enough but just barely.
i would totally get this if they had a larger keyboard. butterfly style perhaps? I miss the ones from IBM, they were like transforming keyboards. why did they go out of style? they were brilliant.
I wish there was a "regular" edition of this without the fancy processor and wireless data. It is an awesome form factor, I would rather get this instead of the Dell Mini, but there is absolutely no reason for me to have all that power in such a tiny package, and I'm not going to subscribe to any 3G data plans, either.
WOW, i soo badly want it now ! Fast CPU, but not a long battery life......still...want it !
It's like a DS lite and a laptop got smashed together....
I agree. So it should attract the attention of small children and people who just want to look so damn cool/important 24-7 anywhere and everywhere, all the time with no limitations!
probably the best umpc in the world
agreed.
Yes was wondering about battery life as well... Little bastard probably sucks a battery down in less than an hour. So, in other words, this is another useless "laptop". Only a little smaller, F'd up keys, and a touchscreen. woohoo......
Well, no it doesn't.
With normal use, you get 4 hours.
With intensive use (Webcam chat on WiFi, with movie and music, and brightness of screen on high), you get a little over 2 hours.
For a dual processor UMPC with a dedicated ATI 128MB Graphics chip, I call this Battery life: Breakthough.
I call it: same old crap, just in a smaller, more expensive, shiny packaging!
While the concept of a Netbook is great; I think vendors really missed the ball when Intel announced its Atom chip last year. Intel sought mobile internet devices, and I think Google Android and Ubuntu MID answered the call. Hardware should be geared to compete with Apple's ipod Touch -- give it a bigger screen (say 6 inches), more RAM, more functionality (word processing, quick paint, adobe reader and flash, mozilla firefox, etc) and of course 5 hours of battery life all in a $350 package. If vendors try this route, I think they will be able to market themselves better between the laptop and smartphone.
Hmm, looks like this would be a nice jacket-pocket laptop, a bit pricy for most people as their 3rd laptop (Desktop replacement + Mobile 12" one + UMPC) and too small for the only laptop.
Seeing as I have a good, unlimited 3G data plan, this would be very good, one USB module less.