The Price is Right

Admit it, Wal Mart may be the best place in town place to get groceries, soda and toilet paper, but notebook computers? Well, Everex announced that they will start selling their CloudBook laptop at the national discount chain store. At $400, the price is right for the two-pound system that uses a 7-inch screen. Based on a 1.2GHz Via C7-M processor, 512MB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive, the CloudBook is squarely in the camp of the Asus Eee PC, OLPC’s XO and Intel’s Classmate in the rapidly growing field of small notebooks for schools. The system uses the gOS Rocket Linux operating system, comes with a slew of applications and even base systems have WiFi wireless networking. Look for it in stores by the end of January.
Check it out at the Everex Web site.