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- everex debuts $399 ultramobile PC
- Everex debuts $399 ultramobile PCWindows Vista Version Is AvailableHas 1GB RAM, a 100 GB drive, runs twice as slow as the $399 version but only costs $899.What a bargain!!Format the drive and put Ubuntu on it.That way you can surf more privately and not be such a Google sheeple. I...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Everex, PC, ultramobile PC, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- everex debuts $399 ultramobile PC
- At CES, Everex is launching a $399 ultramobile that will be sold through Walmart.com starting January 25. The low-cost Everex CloudBook uses the open source gOS V2 Rocket operating system and VIA 1.2GHz C7-M ULV processor, same as the $199 Everex gPC. The Cloudbook is designed for...
- Tags: Google Inc., PC, Ultramobile PC, Everex, Unit, Cloudbook, gOS, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Engineering, Open Source, Construction, Ethernet, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Another cheap mini-portable...competition rocks
- Everex looks to be the latest to join the ranks of companies offering Ultra-Mobile PCs UMPCs at prices educational institutions can afford. While final details will be released early in the year, both Linuxdevices.com and engadget picked up on this device. The 7" mini-portable is slated to run...
- Tags: Google Apps, Ultramobile PC, Everex, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Mice, Ethernet, Keyboards, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Peripherals, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Wal-Mart PC was a sell-out
- Our story about the Wal-Mart PC, backed by the Google Toolbar, was the 8th most popular story on this blog for 2008. As I noted the next day, this was not a Google PC. It ran a version of Linux called GOS and the only googly thing about...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Everex, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- It's not a Google PC
- Attention Wal-Mart shoppers! The "Google PC" I described yesterday is not really a Google PC at all. GOS, whose Linux distribution powers the new $199 box, is a separate company from Google. All Google is supplying is a toolbar, something many Windows PCs already...
- Tags: Google Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Everex, Microsoft Windows Vista, Desktop Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Can Google and Wal-Mart break the Microsoft desktop monopoly?
- Despite the great hype, both here and elsewhere, over Everex' new "Google PC" this may be less than meets the eye. Or it could be more. It may be less because the Everex gPC TC2502 is not much of a computer. It runs a...
- Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Everex, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Branding, Desktops, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- News to know: IBM's fear free enterprise; everex Google PC; Vista security
- Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Everex delivers $198 err $199 Google-friendly PC. IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spend. Ed Bott: One year later, Vista really is more secure. AP: Cisco Announces $16B China Expansion...
- Tags: Security, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, PC, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Everex, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., OpenSocial, Nanotechnology, Data Centers, Keyboards, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- everex delivers $198 Google-friendly PC
- Everex delivers $198 Google-friendly PCVery interesting I wish them well....Who knows maybe this is something Dell should have tried?Pagan jimThis story is a lieAccording to the DoJ, the EU, the EC, and 99% of posters on ZDNet, when you buy a PC, you are forced to buy Windows (except for...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PC, Everex, Google-friendly PC, Linux, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- everex delivers $198 Google-friendly PC
- Everex has teamed up with open source players to create a $198 PC sans display. The Everex Green gPC TC2502 runs a Linux OS and is loaded with or has links to free applications, including Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, Google Product Search, Google Blogger, Google YouTube,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Everex, Everex Green gPC TC2502, gPC, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Does everex benefit open source market?
- Does Everex benefit open source market?Conversion path.Microsoft marketing has been amazing for them. My cousin (who I hadn't chatted with for years) was over at my house last weekend. After reading her mail on my laptop she started asking about what I do for a living. When...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Marketing, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp., FLOSS, Everex
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Does everex benefit open source market?
- Everex has released a $298 back to school desktop system built around Open Office and Windows Vista.While the company's press release emphasizes energy efficiency and productivity, the big news here is it's being sold at Wal-Mart.The marketing screams open source, but the PC itself runs Windows Vista, replacing only Microsoft...
- Tags: Strategy, Not Linux, Microsoft, mass market, marketing, Hardware, General, education, business models, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- everex StepNote VA4101M
- If a brand-new Windows Vista laptop is your target but funds are in short supply, you face limited options. A full retail copy of even the stripped-down version of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista Home Basic, runs $199, to say nothing of the PC hardware to run it with....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Processors, Notebooks, DVD, Everex, Intel Celeron, Everex StepNote, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Celeron M, StepNote VA4101M, Everex StepNote VA4101M
- Product reviews 2007-02-16
- everex StepNote NC1500
- The Everex StepNote NC1500 first came to our attention as a potentially interesting preholiday Wal-Mart special--a sub-$500 laptop. But the low price isn't the most interesting thing about the StepNote NC1500. First, there's the unusual choice of CPU. Virtually every other desktop or laptop on the market goes with Intel...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, StepNote NC1500, Everex, laptop computer, Everex StepNote, Everex StepNote NC1500
- Product reviews 2006-11-20
Additional Resources
- When all the technology in the world won't help
- When all the technology in the world won't helpSmall Town BudgetsThe facts are most small town school systems will continue to teach non-technically. I'm a product of one small public high school two-hours from DC that couldn't afford a Calculus teacher. Solution? They gave us a telephone...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, geometry
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- Open source will not save education
- Open source will not save educationOpen sourceHuh?If I need a course on calculus, every g** d*** calculus teacher doesn't need to invent it. This is monkey see, monkey do.Wait a second. Aren't teachers "government employees"?Never mind.I beg to differIt isn't the teachers, it's IT. There's an education IT...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, education, open source, computer, information technology, game
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Open source will not save education
- Bob Zemsky right of the University of Pennsylvania had an "ah-ha" moment a few years ago, listening to some people demand grants for open source education. He described it to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The problem isn't supply. It's demand. Teachers won't or...
- Tags: Education, Open Source, Productivity, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- ThinkGOS using MySpace tie-in for new Linux PC
- ThinkGOS using MySpace tie-in for new Linux PCUltimately fit for the ultimate abuseAlas, Linux is ultimately fit for the ultimate abuse. Open source completely in the service of advertising. What's to stop a McDonalds Linux? Or a Hilton Linux?I have often wondered why this kind of horror isn't happening on...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, PC, Linux, Linux server, MySpace, Linux PC
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- ThinkGOS using MySpace tie-in for new Linux PC
- ThinkGOS and Everex have found a new gimmick for selling Linux desktops -- a tie-in with MySpace. The MyMiniPC runs a version of GOS Linux and is priced at $499. It's "optimized" with a host of MySpace applications, and brags they're delivered just weeks after the MySpace...
- Tags: PC, Linux PC, MySpace, MyMiniPC, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOSgood ideabut my guess is, they will buy option 3 or 4.The problem is, most people who shop at Wal-Mart for a PC are looking to buy something they are familiar with. I don't think you could convince them...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PC Market, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS
- My blogging colleague Dana Blankenhorn reports that ThinkgOS founder David Lui isn't worried by the Wal-Mart snub. He should be. Here's what Lui had to say: "It sounds like a big story but it's not that big a story. Right off the bat we were telling...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Margin, Linux, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
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