Just google for "Psion" and "Netbook" (or "Series 7"). Adding "unbelievably obsolete hardware" and "manufacturer out of business" might also help.

Oh, what the heck? It's here.

I was drooling for the Asus eee until I got the 150$ Nokia 770 (and NEC MobilePro 800c) with touchscreen. Not I wouldn't buy anything subnotebook that don't have a touchscreen.

also I wouldn't buy anything that can't run Linux. Sorry but no windows Mobile for me. (Linux make devices be timeless as even a win98 era laptop can run linux and make the then unsuported usb port usable.)

So yes the cloudbook is on my purchase list for next year.

About the Eee's Solid state hard drive : I can get a large compact flash card and adapter to replace any hard drive in ANY computer. The compact flash format is far from dead and it's still widely used as a hard drive in industrial applications.

so the Eee don't have any technological edge on any other computer; even it's small size and low price will be matched by the cloudbook.

Whoops, my bad. I meant Packard Bell.

http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/ne...p?storyid=1063

Ah, OK. Never used one, are they that bad ? :-)

Their nickname used to be Packard Hell. It's a non-company in the US now.

The Packard Bell name indeed has a bad reputation in the US but is still popular in Europe. It isn't the same company it used to be, however. NEC bought the brand in the mid 90s and Acer/Gateway acquired it earlier this year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell

Everex is actually owned and manufactured by FIC in Taiwan, a large manufacturer of motherboards. The Cloudbook is based on Via's Nanobook UMD reference design:

http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives...head/nanobook/

One of my favorite device form-factors was the old Sharp Tri-pad..



It was slick in its day, 9.4" screen, could fold to tablet format, full size keyboard, CF and PCMCIA slots.. Too bad it was slow and RAM cramped. I still have it, and it still works as well as it ever did. Made a good (if slow) ebook reader with uBook.

Cheers
Harold

I forget the name of the company, but they made an updated version. Sold about as well as the tripad.... Sweet design though.

People have been saying this has no touchpad. It does have one. A little, thumb-sized one, up next to the hinge. Interesting and different layout. Of course, there's two versions, the regular (no touchscreen), and the developer's (with touchscreen), so maybe there is no touchpad on the developer's version.

I like the cloudbook better than the Eee. It's just a touch smaller (though I've heard that the keyboard is the exact same parts), and the high-capacity hard-drive and touchscreen make sense to me. For those who punt their laptops, maybe the HDD should be replaced with a SSD, but notebook drives are respectably rugged these days, so I think it'd be fine.
When I've got enough cash and time, I think I'm getting one.

Now this maybe another "special device" hand-build/programmed by enslaved virgins for my use only (Same as my WinXP and WiMo devices/software) but the PacBell I bought back in 2002 still works like a charm. It has been upgraded trice including a new graphics card instead of the build in and while not the most silent it's still one of my main boxes and reliabel.