Battle of the featherweight notebooks: Everex CloudBook vs. Asus EeePC

by atticus ~ March 14, 2008

ComputerWorld has posted a thorough comparison of Everex Cloudbook and Asus EeePC. The two ultra portables were pitted against each other in 14 areas - design, heft, video quality, storage, keyboard, touch pad, processor, battery/fan, wi-fi, upgradeability, external ports, operating system/BIOS, applications and tech support.

As with most other Cloudbook and EeePC comparison reviews, EeePC emerged the better laptop. This is what ComputerWorld has to conclude:

It may not be a knockout, but the Eee overwhelmingly beats the CloudBook on points. Apart from the admittedly subjective area of hardware design (which I scored to Everex), the Eee trumped the CloudBook in nine categories, including the key ones of video playback, operating system, Wi-Fi and touchpad. The CloudBook did tie the Eee in four areas, including software, tech support, keyboard and storage. If not for several small problems, the latter two should actually have gone to Everex.

If you’re in the market for a $400 subnotebook, there are a few reasons — none of them crucial — why you might choose the CloudBook today over the Eee: desire for greater storage in order to store multimedia files or install a heftier operating system such as Windows XP. A deep preference for the color black. A contrarian streak that rebels against the Eee’s trendiness.

But until Everex makes a large public commitment to releasing an updated operating system and/or BIOS fixing the CloudBook, I can only recommend it for experienced Linux users who will view the inevitable hours they spend hacking their CloudBook as recreation, not hassle. Fortunately, most of the CloudBook’s problems are operating system- or software-related and hence should reasonably easy for Everex and gOS to fix.

Read the full article here.