everex cloudbook for $129 - 10% - 4.1%

[hans007]

http://www.geeks.com/details.a...d=CE1200V-PB-R&cat=NBB

10% coupon.

4.1% bing cash.


I've heard this thing isn't very good , but then again its $115 + shipping (Which is probably $7 or so).


I hvae a c7 1ghz itx board before with 512mb ddr2 and it ran ubuntu 7.04 and surfed the web fine off an old laptop drive, so I'm assuming this would also be able to.

So if thatis what you want to do with a netbook, this might be better than the refurb EEEPC deals out there since most of those only have 4GB disk... OR NOT. The reviews for the cloudbook are not very good, but most of them were for when it was $399 so for $110-115 maybe its buyable.

 

[Schmide]

Kind of cool

 

[JaYp146]

Yeah, the C7 process is woefully underpowered ... I suppose if you gave it the max RAM it wouldn't be TOO bad of a netbook.

 

[DaveSimmons]

They have the original Asus eeeeee with 900 MHz Celeron for $20 more (after 14% pff = $17 more), with 4GB SSD instead of a hard drive. The Celeron will crush that via like a puny bug.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Via CPUs are slow enough to make you want to punch kittens.

 

[slightlyhuman]

so this thing wouldn't even be decent enough to run IE and maybe download some music for average users with xp installed?

 

[MisterE]

DeePee, it will be fine for that. Via CPUs aren't that bad. I've used several Via C3-powered and a couple of Via C7-powered systems for assorted tasks over the years, and they've performed admirably. I currently use a Neo System NE252 tiny industrual PC with Via C3 1GHz fanless CPU and 512MB of RAM as my (linux-based) firewall/router,DHCP, DNS,file services, BackupPC server, etc., and keep a VNC session running on it with Azureus loaded for torrent downloading. It works great and runs until I choose to reboot it. Programs don't start super-fast, but are pretty responsive once they've loaded.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: DeePee
so this thing wouldn't even be decent enough to run IE and maybe download some music for average users with xp installed?

its not THAT slow.

I have a friend who has an hp 2133 netbook and its perfectly fine for like xp and surfing the web and office apps and such (his actually came with vista to start with).


I mean i've used an even slower c7 to surf the web in ubuntu. you can tturn compiz fusion on with ubuntu and the crappy cn700 chipset though .

I'd say its about as fast as an atom maybe a little slower , but this is 1.2 ghz, so its slower than all the atom netbooks. maybe this performs like a 1ghz atom.

 

[yuchai]

Does the Via C7 run flash well? I have the original Asus EEE and I've found that the Celeron is mostly adequate except for flash videos, which are laggy especially with higher quality ones.

 

[brblx]

it's going to be worse. the atom has trouble with intensive flash stuff, the celeron should be the best among netbooks.

edit- i looked it up and eee pc has a 900mhz celeron (thought it was faster), which should be roughly equivalent to the 1.6ghz atom. either way, the via is the weaker choice.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: yuchai
Does the Via C7 run flash well? I have the original Asus EEE and I've found that the Celeron is mostly adequate except for flash videos, which are laggy especially with higher quality ones.

from what i recall, youtube was a struggle in linux. it is on atom also.

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
They have the original Asus eeeeee with 900 MHz Celeron for $20 more (after 14% pff = $17 more), with 4GB SSD instead of a hard drive. The Celeron will crush that via like a puny bug.

Wasn't the original EEE a C7? I owned one for about a day until some puke stole it.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: angry hampster

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
They have the original Asus eeeeee with 900 MHz Celeron for $20 more (after 14% pff = $17 more), with 4GB SSD instead of a hard drive. The Celeron will crush that via like a puny bug.

Wasn't the original EEE a C7? I owned one for about a day until some puke stole it.

it was a celeron 900 running at 633 mhz i think.

 

[Emulex]

youtube is a struggle on OSX with an atom. good luck with flash based players in linux.