Everex Cloudbook: The Asus EeePC Killer?
Judy Lipsett of Gear Diary has done my filthy bidding given in to my crybaby begging acceded to my request and sent me a hot-from-CES photo of the new Everex Cloudbook:
I’ve been interested in this. Read these brief specs and you might be too:
OS: gOS V2 Rocket (oh that’ll be ripped out for XP by the 1337)
RAM: 512MB DDR2 533MHz SDRAM (1GB Max)
CPU: 1.2 GHz VIA C7-M
Screen: 7-inch 800 x 480 pixels
Storage: 30GB hard drive(!) 4200 RPM
Price: US$399.00
For a better view, I have uploaded the original 4MB photo to Flickr.
Thanks, Judy!
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January 7, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I look forward to this notebook as well. Usually it’s considered more “1337” to put linux on systems than to take it off though…
January 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm
It’d be nice to see some pics of the EeePC alongside it (won’t happen at CES I know!!). How much does the Everex weigh I wonder?
January 7, 2008 at 7:50 pm
[…] to Mike Cane, we now have a glimpse of the Everex Cloudbook at the CES. The hardware information appears to be the same as expected: […]
January 7, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Where is the touchpad on this thing?
January 8, 2008 at 7:55 am
Reasons why it won’t kill the EEE:
1. Its ugly
2. Next-gen EEE (Promised to appear @ april) will most likely have a fanless CPU ! (45nm MEROM with x64 vs 90nm)
3. The hard drive is times SLOWER than the SSD and its a battery drainer
January 8, 2008 at 8:54 am
Rick — look above the keyboard. At the left side are two mouse buttons. On the right is a very, very small touchpad. See the Flickr enlarged photo for detail.
Sessar — Even if #2 and #3 are true, April is a long time away (in tech terms) and that’s still a lot of storage. I don’t intend to start a war of the cheap subnotebooks here, hence the question in the post and not a declarative statement.
To all else, I’m still waiting for more details. Judy was rushed last night and today she’s apparently already at the show. Plus, I have morning appointments to take care of. I hope to provide more later (other sites might already have!).
January 8, 2008 at 12:20 pm
[…] Storage: 30GB hard drive(!) 4200 RPM. More details at Mike Cane 2008. […]
January 8, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Re: the touchpad, why not a trackpoint in the middle of the keypad like many IBM/Lenovo/Dell Latitude laptops? It’d be a much better solution.
January 8, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Replace the harddrive with a larger capacity one, and it’s a nice portable NAS/server..!
January 9, 2008 at 1:19 am
Is it just my eyes, or is the right shift… missing?
And why are the #, @, ” and other buttons all over the place?
January 9, 2008 at 3:53 am
That stamp sized thing is supposed to be a touchpad. LOL!
How do they expect people to use it? With a stylus?
January 9, 2008 at 11:01 am
@ twrock: Don’t worry about that. The keyboard is too wee for your bratwurst fingers to begin with.
@ No1: If I were to get it (or the EeePC), I’d probably be lugging around a portable mouse anyway, so I’m not too concerned. The edge-and-back placement of those is meant to allow their use when holding the unit between two hands — as if it was a Sidekick or something. I guess that could happen. Just not with me.
January 10, 2008 at 4:18 am
“And why are the #, @, ” and other buttons all over the place?”
It’s an English keyboard hence the pound sign above the 3.
You have no idea how many Ozzys change their keyboards to English.
I probably fix one every 2 months.
January 11, 2008 at 11:09 am
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January 15, 2008 at 12:44 pm
One question: Is WLAN actually realized as an external, shipped-with-product, though still external and USB dongle?
On the everex HP and in the users manual of the ViaBook (the reference design) from http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2007/09/via-nanobook-dissected.html it is stated that way. And the Cloudbook only has 2 USB ports total as stated there.
It’s from September and for the Reference Design, … so has the Everex Cloudbook realized WLAN in the same, external fashion?
January 15, 2008 at 6:21 pm
According to specs at Gear Diary, WiFi is built into the Cloudbook:
http://www.geardiary.com/2008/01/09/ces-2008-lunch-pieros/
January 15, 2008 at 6:24 pm
The specs are also at Everex:
http://www.everex.com/
Looks built-in to me.
January 16, 2008 at 12:43 pm
OK, seems to be built-in, phew – thanks for the pointer!