Everex Laptop

[betamaxman]

Anyone use this Everex with linux, price seems very reasonable. Like to know how it jives with linux though before making an online purchase. Also do you know of a lower Canadian price? Thanks.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3329305&sku=E80-NC1502R&CMP=EMC-EMAIL2006&SRCCODE=CANEM981

[enshum]

I did not find a lot of Linux user info on this machine and cpu. I would suggest that if you decide to buy it go with 1 or 2 gigs of memory it would be painfully slow with less memory. Since Linux distros are free and easy to download try three or four distros and see what works. Just remember this is a email, internet, word processor, spreadsheet machine, not a gamer 3d graphics hot rod. It should run very quiet and very cool. Be sure to get and ac adapter for it. they do come in handy.

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[enshum]

This is excerpt from a article I just read (the year of the Linux desktop 2007) and is abetter answer to you request for information concerning everex and linux.
What Everex has done is two equally important things to bring Linux into the mainstream.

First, Everex has packaged up the latest version of Ubuntu, release 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), into a neatly pre-installed plug and play desktop system, called gOS, that any novice user vaguely familiar with a mouse-driven graphical computer interface could use straight off. Looking at screenshots of the gOS interface, with the horizontal row of application icons across the bottom, is reminiscent of the Mac OS X interface. The icons include links to popular web applications and destinations, as well as a range of open source or free proprietary applications, such as OpenOffice and Skype. Take a look at gOS here.

Second, Everex has pre-installed gOS on a sensationally priced desktop box it calls the Green gPC - green not because the interface has a green background but because it is energy efficient.At US$199 without monitor, the gPC is not the most highly configured PC on the planet, but it has everything in the way of connectivity and features that most average desktop users would need. That includes six USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet port, 1.5GHz, VIA C7-D Processor, 512MB SDRAM, 80GB Hard Disk Drive, DVD-ROM/D-RW Optical Drive, serial and parallel ports and everything else you would expect to find with a standard desktop. The specs are here.

The latest news is that Everex plans to bring out a gOS notebook early next year for less than $300.

It would tempting to say that the gPC is a game changer, a disruptive force in the PC space. However, it's not the gPC or even gOS that is the game changer. The game changer is what Everex has done with Ubuntu and more generally Linux. What this relatively minor player in the PC space has done could be emulated without too much trouble by other PC makers and the result to the end user would be the lowering of the cost of computing - hardware and software - by an order of magnitude. Instead of paying $500 or $600 for an average desktop Windows PC plus the same again for proprietary software they think they need, users could be paying less than $200 for the lot if they take the route Everex has mapped out.

In case anyone thinks I'm beating the Ubuntu drum a little too loudly, if anyone manages to package any of the other Linux distros in the way that Everex has packaged Ubuntu, well fine, as long as it works for the end user.

There are of course skeptics who believe that the Everex gPC will flop in the same way as previous attempts to bring Linux PCs to market. Looking at the gOS interface, with the row of familiar icons across the bottom of the screen, it's hard to see this being the case. Computing is one area where familiarity does not necessarily breed contempt and, at $199, it's difficult to be contemptuous of the Everex gPC.

The era of the Linux desktop is upon us and bring it on I say.
Tags: Linux, Open Source, Stan Beer,

note this article is about the everex destop pc however the the cpu and other hardware are similar. hope this helps. for a more definitive answer you could contact Everex directly.

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[betamaxman]

Both answers help, thanks. It is especially great to learn that dell is not the only pc maker giving end users another alternative besides apple or windows based pcs. Might wait for that sub $300 model though.