Asus Eee PC vs. Everex Cloudbook

Side-by-side bootups. The Eee PC is the clear winner.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• asus
• eee
• pc
• everex
• cloudbook

[greggh]

I can't understand why you would make a point to say that you prefer the crappy awkwardly placed touchpad on the cloudbook over the decent sized and easily accessed touchpad on the eee. In my mind the badly implented touchpad on the cloudbook is one of it's main weaknesses keeping me from buying it.

[robertnelson]

Its all in how you use the trackpad, I use these laptops either at a desk or table or while sitting on the couch relaxing.

While at a desk or table, I almost always use a separate USB mouse (with the Eee or Cloudbook) so the experience there is the same.

More important for me, and why I prefer the oddly placed trackpad on the Cloudbook is because its really nice to have when sitting back and relaxing, the ability to use it two handed while surfing (at least for me) is much more convenient.

[videowatcher06]

y move the screen to enter password?? am i gonna find out where you live and login to the eeepc and steal your gay porn?

[robertnelson]

good call, to be honest i am not really sure, i guess you can just call it force of habit

[francescomm]

I have an Eee and can confirm that boot time with the default OS is fantastic. Speed is the same *WITHOUT ADDITIONAL RAM*. The reasons it is so fast are:

- Thin and very *simple* OS (others are not as quick at startup).

- The SSD. While *NOT* much faster than traditional HDs in MB/s, it is *VERY* quicker in access times: no head moving = no wait to be at the right place to read a file.

If you are loading 100 small files scattered all over, like at startup, you result in being 900% faster!!

[bastian1926]

I used to have an Everex desk top about a year ago. It took everything I threw at it, had decent memory and all, and for the most part, it was pretty useful. However, my biggest complaint is that it was so slow even on booting up like yours. I had an AMD Sempron processor in it, so I wonder if that had something to do with it. I'd recommend to a kid for a good starter computer, but that's about it.

[GURULUDE1]

that look like some shitty shit... damm it reminds me of the apple computer from 93... lol

[SmashCOBamberg]

what's the exact name of the linux distro running on the eeepc? And can u install it on any netbook?

[jameswx09]

How much did they cost? $50? Those are crap.

[adamsdead2]

Its running a linux distro

[randomness48]

what OS was EEE running? doesnt look like windows

[Hildron101010]

But why does it say GOS?

[djsmiker]

I meant its debian :)

[Hildron101010]

If it is running Ubuntu, why did it say GOS?

[djsmiker]

nooob, eee has a customized os, tweaked just for basic functionalities, while the cloudbook boots and ubuntu distro, so its evident it has to wait more to boot a more complex system, think before wasting your time recording a useless video, we dont need more advertisings ;)