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Asus EEE PC VS Everex Cloudbook

For some reason, I am extremely intrigued by these tiny laptops.  As a developer I really couldn't make use of one in my work, the screen is too small, the storage is too limited, and out-of-the-box there just isn't enough memory. 

But I can't help myself...I want one!

When ASUS announced they were going to be releasing such an affordable, linux based mini-laptop I was excited.  A) because another company was rolling a machine with linux as the OS, and B) finally an ultra small laptop that was cheap!

One of the major drawbacks in my opinion was the 4GB of storage that the eee PC offered (in the $399 model).  4GB is just almost unusable in this day and age.

Everex, the makers of the gPC (the $199 desktop system with an Ubuntu derivative operating system) are about to release their competitor to the eee PC.  Lets look at the Cloudbook and compare it to the eee PC.

(PRICE is $399 for each of these two laptops. )

Processor Speed

    eee PC:  Intel® Celeron® M processor with 900MHz

    Cloudbook: 1.2GHz, VIA C7®-M Processor ULV

Memory (RAM)

    eee PC:  512MB DDR2

    Cloudbook: 512MB DDR2

Hard Drive

    eee PC:  4GB flash-based SSD hard drive

    Cloudbook:  30GB HDD

Display

    eee PC:  7" WVGA TFT Display (800 x 480)

    Cloudbook:  7" WVGA TFT Display (800 x 480)

Weight

    eee PC: 2 pounds

    Cloudbook: 2 pounds

As you can tell from the specs, these two machines are fairly evenly matched except in two areas, processor and storage.  For the same price, you can get almost 50% more processor and over 7 times the storage.   Also, in terms of case appearance the Cloudbook is more appealling to me. 

That all said, I haven't actually had the opportunity to get my hands on either one so all I can to is admire them both from afar.  But if I had to choose, I'd order the Cloudbook.

Related Videos:

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Review of eee PC by Notebookreview.com