Raon Digital: maker of UMPC monstrosities meets its maker?
By Thomas Ricker 
posted July 14th 2009 4:37AM
posted July 14th 2009 4:37AM
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posted July 14th 2009 4:37AM
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Ah yes. We'll miss Raon. Who could forget those beloved "failure symptoms" and "Blue Screen phenomena."
"particularly fond of the overpriced ($879 at launch) and problematic Everun Note "premium" netbook. For everyone else, rejoice, your fears of a Vega 2 may have been assuaged. "
I see you're still struggling with the definition of Netbook. It was tiny, packed a desktop processor, had a touchscreen, and could do the job of a desktop when docket, which your average Eee-pc can't.
Had rubbish battery and a small load of other problems though. But a netbook, it was not, it was a UMPC, and thus in a different niché and price segment from the start.
Noooooooooo....
I was really looking forward togetting my hands on a next generation Everun Note :( Dual core and descrete graphics in such a tiny form looked cool.
The rest of their stuff looked nasty though.
R.I.P. Raon
What's with the Note hate? If memory serves, only some of them needed to be recalled when they first came out and I'm pretty sure it has always been $600, or at least has been for a long time (Dynamism).
Bottom line is that the Note is still the fastest UMPC, or indeed netbook, available. I was looking forward to getting one at some point.
It isn't a netbook - it's a pocketable desktop, and the only one of its kind - 64bit dual core K8 with an actual 3d graphics solution that isn't a joke. (dedicated graphics memory)
It's most fatal flaw was in not packing quite enough heatsink for all that processing power - the "revised" version following the recall dropped the CPU speed to 1 GHz max.
Still a crapload faster than a crippled little atom with it's toy architecture.
That's such a shame.
I took my Vega backpacking around the world with me, downloading pictures off my camera, writing a journal, checking email, loading music on my iPod, even doing some Desk-top-publishing for an NGO we worked with in Lebanon. It is an awesome bit of kit. It's a bit small and fiddly at times, but its compact size is one of its assets. The handwriting recognition is a stroke of genius.
Such a shame that the world didn't wake up to this manufacturer.