Delay rains on CloudBook debut... late February is the forecast
Today was supposed to be the day you could snap up a $399 Everex CloudBook at WalMart, but the release is now a little foggy. ComputerWorld notes that "last-minute software tweaks" are pushing availability out to late February at the earliest. If I had to guess, I'd say there some driver issues or (even worse) some problems with hardware itself. The Linux-based gOS operating system is already running on Everex desktops (also sold at WalMart), so I can't see what else the problem could be. Dropping the bad news on the actual release date isn't a very positive sign either. Let's hope the issue is resolved quickly while the low-priced sub-notebook device class has some momentum.
Bah! &^%$#@!! Oh wait, I didn't have the $$ today anyway.
Never mind...
Posted by: Mike Cane | January 25, 2008 at 01:53 PM
Those Walmart PC's are most likely still running gOS version 1.0.1. Cloudbook is supposed to have version 2 "Rocket", which is still in beta. That's why they are most likely having troubles with the OS, it's not out yet officially in final form.
Posted by: Chris | January 26, 2008 at 11:11 PM