Everex US is now closed

Click on over to the American Everex homepage and that's the message that you get, "Everex US is now closed," with no further explanation or information on what to do with your inevitable support quandaries. The company, whose name humorously stands for "Ever for Excellence," has slid into and out of bankruptcy numerous times before, so this probably isn't the last we've seen of it. But, for the moment, it has withdrawn from USDM shores, meaning no more insultingly over-sized "green" PCs, no more clunky Cloudbooks, and no more interminable delays. Anyone still wanting something from the company will now need to import it themselves from Taiwan -- though you certainly have plenty of other choices in the low-end netbook space without resorting to that kind of behavior.

[Via Laptop]

[Sea Urchin @ Jul 15th 2009 9:00AM]

Is that Beer or something else?

[AJ in the East Bay @ Jul 15th 2009 9:02AM]

Looks like a 40.

[SimonRichards @ Jul 15th 2009 9:02AM]

I hope its piss. That device is bloody awful.

[DB @ Jul 15th 2009 9:04AM]

yeah, why is there a 40 in the picture?

[GRAMMAR POLICE @ Jul 15th 2009 9:11AM]

You people are idiots.

[CtrlBurn @ Jul 15th 2009 9:18AM]

They aren't idiots, they've just never lost a homie, so they don't know the proper procedures.

[pfuego @ Jul 15th 2009 9:28AM]

Wait, that song is a joke, right? Cause, it's funny as hell, but maybe it's unintentional.

Wow, just wow.

[Exile @ Jul 15th 2009 11:28AM]

Pouring out a 40 for your homie? Ugh, I'm surrounded by low-class Saiyins.

[Timmy @ Jul 15th 2009 11:44AM]

"and one for our homies"

[Duke @ Jul 15th 2009 12:03PM]

That picture is pure win! I hope that's Olde English 800.

[Smart People Play Tuba @ Jul 15th 2009 2:24PM]

One fo' me, one fo' my homies.

Mourn ya till I join ya.

[alex @ Jul 15th 2009 3:35PM]

Heads up!

Jarate!

[Chas Underwood III @ Jul 15th 2009 9:08AM]

It's paying respect to a fallen hombre. I think this one will slip quietly into obscurity.

[StinkyPete @ Jul 15th 2009 9:13AM]

Stay down this time....

[Rick @ Jul 15th 2009 9:26AM]

They made waterproof laptops?

[Art @ Jul 15th 2009 3:59PM]

that 40 has to be photoshopped: it has a ROUND bottom

[oliver hart @ Jul 15th 2009 2:14PM]

the eye sees what the mind wants it to see.

[Smart People Play Tuba @ Jul 15th 2009 2:25PM]

Your mom has a round . . .

Never mind.

[LloydChiro @ Jul 15th 2009 9:44AM]

Everex now uses Thinkpad liquid drains on their keyboards. This is especially helpful for the thugs who keep losing they dead homiez.

[ev01 @ Jul 15th 2009 10:13AM]

It's from the Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg compton gangatsa' rap era. "Po a little out for the homies who ain't with us no mo'" - It is brilliant.

From this point on, any and all posts regarding closing companies should include the company's logo and/or product(s) with a 40 oz of O.E. being poured onto it. Bravo, sirs.

[rsm @ Jul 15th 2009 10:11AM]

I hope that this is the last time for this Frankenstein company -- it needs to stay dead.

[kennymessage @ Jul 16th 2009 10:51AM]

funny shit ..classic

[Magallanes @ Jul 15th 2009 10:26AM]

because pouring beer must be considered as a heresy.

[Alistair loveless @ Jul 15th 2009 10:44AM]

A having two separate everex xt5000t stepnotes i can honestly say im not surprised.

When i bought the first one 2 years ago it was single handedly the best piece of hardware for the price. About 9 months deep the video card a nvidia 7600go completely crapped out on me.

I sent it in for repair in Nov. 08 (approx the 7th) and took until January to hear that it would be repaired out of warranty and the mobo was bad.

After talking with MANY people at everex i finally came across someone who said yeah this is due to the architecture of the nvidia chipset. overheats, melts kind of thing. Was replaced for free. Received it back in APRIL of 09. Told on a weekly basis the mobos had not arrived yet.
Apparently Everex had to eat the cost of the repairs as per some contract with Nvidia.

In the Meantime i still needed a laptop to use at shows, so i picked up a second one. Within 2 weeks (Feb 09) the SECOND one had the same error. In the meantime, due to the large volume of complaints about this model among others Everex Shut down its forums about people complaining about not hearing anything back. They Killed their Phone numbers and were IMPOSSIBLE to reach. I had about 8 different numbers i would try on a daily basis along with emails just to try and get a hold of a PERSON. It wouldn't even let you leave a message!

Finally got the second repaired for 160 even though it was the same error. Everex decided it would not be offering free repairs even though it was a manufacturing error.

Total Nightmare to deal with. Just received the second back from repair about a month ago.

Arent they owned by MSI?

[Alistair loveless @ Jul 15th 2009 11:01AM]

my mistake looks like they are owned by fic

[BigTeebo @ Jul 15th 2009 10:46AM]

I can't believe that the company that made that kids' toy, the Cloudbook, has closed shop. No, wait, I played with the Cloudbook and its postage-stamp sized mousepad in the store. Yes, I can believe it now.

[Alistair loveless @ Jul 15th 2009 10:46AM]

This link is a Rick Roll.

Man it feels awfully 2007 in here today.

[MitchSchaft @ Jul 15th 2009 10:57AM]

I'm glad they're dead. The laptop I bought from them in '06 did not last a year and had plenty of troubles during that time. Their support NEVER got back with me on any issue I had.

Stay dead, bitches. You are not wanted here.

[10minutehobo @ Jul 15th 2009 11:11AM]

What's Everex?

[James @ Jul 15th 2009 11:50PM]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+Everex%3F

[10minutehobo @ Jul 16th 2009 5:11PM]

What's sarcasm?

[Jean P. @ Jul 17th 2009 9:10AM]

It's when your mum says she loves you and calls you handsome.

[strider_mt2k @ Jul 15th 2009 12:11PM]

-another one bites the dust...

[Alan Lau @ Jul 15th 2009 12:14PM]

Never ending beer, ah ah aaah, ah ah aaah, ah ah ahhhh....

[CraigJ @ Jul 15th 2009 12:48PM]

Back in the day their 286 and 386 machines made great UNIX boxes. I sold a few of those.

[curiousmike @ Jul 15th 2009 12:54PM]

I remember ... 1987/88, PC Magazine.
Everex had a full, 2page ad with John C Dvorak talking about what a "monster" the Everex 286/12 was.
They've been around for a long time now.

[iJuleguy @ Jul 15th 2009 1:20PM]

I had a Sempron machine from them back in 2005...my hard drive died and it took them a month and a half to send a new one out.

[whitephatt @ Jul 15th 2009 2:09PM]

"Everex US is now closed"

And nothing of value was lost.

[johdaxx @ Jul 15th 2009 2:19PM]

I'm sad - I have a 9600 baud modem in my closet I might need tech support for...

[boomer7638 @ Jul 15th 2009 3:34PM]

Just read this and then a guy tells me he has a laptop he needs me to look at... He brings it in, and it's the first Everex I've ever seen. A Stepnote. You can hear the fans and all, no video internal or external.

Showed him everex.com and said throw that POS away...

[angel @ Sep 14th 2009 6:24AM]

I own a Stepnote, the LM7WZ model. Aside from my kids consistantly knocking the keys off it, I have never had issue with this laptop. I did contact Everex for a replacement keyboard, sent CC info, and a month later got a call asking about my request for a new hard drive. I promptly cancelled my order (and my CC transaction) and am living with no R, semicolon and left shift keys haha. I can't complain about the machine since the one I replaced it with is an HP and in for a warranty repair for the 2nd time in 2 weeks after 9 month ownership.

It's too bad they couldnt keep up. I'm happy with this silly little laptop, but the customer service sucked.