Cloudbook - EEE competitor

[dvandom]

The Cloudbook. Same basic size, cost and weight as the EEE. Uses a traditional hard drive, though, so it has 30G instead of 4G...but loses the benefits of the solid-state drive (durability, less power requirements for drive access). Still, competition is good....

Comments

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Interesting; same weight and potentially batttery life (5 hours) but a 30G disk. Huh.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

However, that 30G disk does require more power to run, so A) the battery life would be a lot shorter in serious use than the EEE, and B) an EEE that's about to go flat can still access memory while a Cloudbook might not have enough oompf for that one last filesave.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

The only problem I really have is, I never liked 'cloud' computing much. I admit, I like portability, I even have my Firefox and GIMP setup on my thumb drive, along with OpenOffice for weird document formats, but as far as STORING stuff on-line, I was never really comfortable with that. Using on-line apps for stuff like documents also never hit with me. That may change, though, if things improve. I wasn't fond of e-mail when it first came out either.

I wonder if I could duel-boot that thing? Right now I use both Linux and XP, depending on what I'm doing. My laptop is almost ALL XP as I haven't found a reliable distribution on it yet.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, neither the Cloudbook nor the EEE seem really intended to be anyone's primary computer...they seem more aimed at people who already have a desktop and don't want to spend too much to get fully functional laptopness. The Cloudbook could probably dual-boot, though, but XP might be a bit more than it can comfortably handle. The EEE comes with the option of loading XP on yourself, but at only 4G total, you'd need a very stripped down XP.