At CES, the Consumer Electronics Association, Everex introduced its new Linux-driven, gOS 2.0, laptop, the CloudBook Ultra-Mobile PC. As with previous Everex PCs, the new laptop will go on sale at Wal-Mart; it will be priced at only $400.
The laptop comes in at an impressively light, easy-to-carry, 2.0 pounds. The CloudBook comes bundled with a seven-inch screen (at 800x480 pixels), a 1.2 GHz processor, 512 MB of memory, a 30 GB hard drive, and memory card reader. Coming in at about five hours of battery life on average, the new Everex laptop is a lightweight achiever in a sea of ever-growing in size laptops.
Will the CloudBook take America by storm like some of the other recent lightweight Linux laptops and PCs, such as the ASUS Eee? There seems to be two continuing trends in the laptop market: bigger, heavier, more expensive, more powerful laptops and lighter, quicker, cheapter laptops. It's all about preference of course. It seems relevant that lighter laptops would come flooding into the market; the original design and purpose of the laptop was to keep working, surfing, and computing no matter where you were; it was never intended as a substitute for a PC. Only registered users can write comments.
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