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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.]]>Jul 14th 2009 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/14/raon-digital-maker-of-monstrosities-meets-its-maker/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/14/raon-digital-maker-of-monstrosities-meets-its-maker/
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]]>Jul 14th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/14/raon-digital-maker-of-monstrosities-meets-its-maker/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/14/raon-digital-maker-of-monstrosities-meets-its-maker/
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.]]>Jul 14th 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/14/raon-digital-maker-of-monstrosities-meets-its-maker/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/14/raon-digital-maker-of-monstrosities-meets-its-maker/
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.
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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.]]>Aug 24th 2009 8:57AM