Everex Cloudbook: Competition for Asus Eee PC

From January 15th, American customers of Everex will be able to buy an alternative to the Asus Eee PC. Everex confirms this report in a press release. The UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) with the code name Cloudbook is to be offered ex works with gOS, a Linux derivative based on Ubuntu 7.10.

gOS uses GNOME and KDE instead of the usual desktop environments Window manager Enlightenment, which uses less memory. The operating system has a 'Mac OS X' -like dock with which Gmail, Wikipedia, Google Docs and local programs such as Skype and Gimp can be accessed. Package management and hardware detection were taken over by Ubuntu.

Like the Eee PC, the Cloudbook should have have a 7-inch display and can display WVGA (800 x 480 pixels). A Via C7 ULV with 1.2 GHz clock rate is used as the CPU. A 30 GB hard drive will probably be on board, which means that Everex, unlike Asus, will not offer any SSD technology. For this, the manufacturer donates, in addition to a special version with webcam, a 512 MB working memory, a LAN and WLAN connection and a 4-in-1 card reader. Two USB 2.0 ports and a DVI out round off the device's connection options. The price for the US version (without webcam) should be around 400 US dollars.

Everex is expecting a successful launch of the Cloudbook and is already speculating with a touchscreen version in future generations.

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