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.

[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.