CloudBook

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CloudBook
Li-ion battery

(14.4 V, 2200 mAh)
Dimensions23×17×3 cm
Mass0.91 kg

The CloudBook is a discontinued

OLPC XO-1 and the Classmate PC. The device was categorized as a netbook
when it was around 2008.

History

Sales of the gPC TC2502 Everex desktop

Ubuntu. The E17's Dock was replaced by the Avant Window Navigator to approach the same looks and functionality as the older gOS versions.[3][4][5]

CloudBook was expected to be released in the United States on February 15, 2008

Wal-Mart and ZaReason, but was pushed back to February 21 for Wal-Mart (ZaReason received a part of its shipment). The price of the device was set to US$399 and it came with one year of limited warranty with 24/7 toll free technical support
.

Nivio
also created a CloudBook based on Nokia/Intel's Meego platform; and owned the US Trademark for CloudBook, CloudPC. It was aiming to use a linux platform for delivering a full windows experience (Desktop as a Service) with an AppStore for renting software. It launched this with Airtel in India. Nivio was co-founded by Sachin Dev Duggal and Saurabh P Dhoot.

Features

The Everex CloudBook had a uniquely located built-in pointing device (a stamp-sized

touch-screen
.

Software

The CloudBook came with a completely new version, (compared to the version used in the

Enlightenment 0.17 as the window manager
. Though the pre-installed operating system is gOS, Everex has released Windows XP hardware drivers, making it more simple to install Microsoft's Windows XP. However, Everex warns that any software outside of the original gOS will not be covered by warranty (though the hardware's warranty will be unaffected).

CloudBook MAX

The next generation of CloudBook, was advertised to have a processor running at 1.6 GHz, a 80 GB disk drive, touch pad and WiMAX. However the company ceased operations.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Wal-Mart sells out of the $200 Linux gPC – Engadget
  2. ^ Packard Bell Easynote XS20 – Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion Archived 2009-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ http://www.zareason.com Archived 2020-11-27 at the Wayback Machine Site explaining the rumor
  4. ^ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/24070 Message at tuxmachines about the gOS on gnome rumour
  5. ^ http://cafelinux.org/gosforum/index.php/topic,308.msg1351/topicseen.html#msg1351 Archived 2014-05-02 at the Wayback Machine conformation by the development team to use Gnome
  6. ^ Eric Lai (January 25, 2008). "Software 'tweaks,' Chinese new year delay Everex CloudBook: The UMPC won't appear in U.S. stores until late February". Computerworld. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  7. ^ http://www.everex.com/ Everex website announcing the new launch date of February 15, 2008
  8. ^ "gOS – Features web apps on a desktop". Archived from the original on 2008-02-25. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
  9. ^ "Think CloudBook MAX". Everex. Archived from the original on April 4, 2008. Retrieved July 22, 2013.


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