Everex CloudBook: In Stock at Wal-Mart, First Impressions

Earlier today, we mentioned that Wal-Mart had the Everex CloudBook listed on their website. They are now showing the 7″ Asus Eee PC competitor as being in stock and ready to go. Meredith Farkas has posted her initial impressions after having received her pre-ordered CloudBook. … Read more

Samsung: SSDs Are Reliable

Over at CNET’s Nanotech: The Circuit Blog, Brooke Crothers writes about Samsung’s efforts to educate people on the reliability of Solid State Drives (SSDs): A concern often mentioned is wear. That is, flash has the potential to wear out after tens (or hundreds) of thousands … Read more

Intel: More ULV CPUs, Montevina Pricing

DigiTimes is reporting on some new Ultra Low Voltage CPUs from Intel’s Santa Rosa platform, as well as the CPU roadmap/price guide for Intel’s Montevina offering (aka Centrino 2) which is geared towards Small Form Factor computing (SFF). The Santa Rosa offerings are the Celeron … Read more

Review: Lenovo ThinkPad/IdeaPad 90W Slim AC/DC Adapter

A few weeks ago, we mentioned Lenovo’s new slim AC/DC adapter. It’s a unique (and hopefully other notebook manufacturers will follow suit) adapter in that it had multiple tips for multiple devices (including cell phones, portable music devices, PDAs, etc.) as well as in some … Read more

HP Compaq 2133 – Entry Level – $499, VIA?

I mentioned an article on CNET about how maybe the Palm Foleo wasn’t such a bad idea. There was a single line in the article that mentioned the would-be UMPC laptop (or subnotebook or whatever) from HP, the HP Compaq 2133, and Kevin Tofel at … Read more