While the Cloudbook may have a few issues, it seems most negative reviews are based upon reference to a first-use PC like a Mac or Windows machine, which this is NOT supposed to be. It is an UMPC, which would not be anyone’s only computer – just a travel companion or sort-of a “really advanced PDA”.

Even with it’s issues, the Cloudbook still works well for its intended purpose. Most, if not all, of its issues would be resolved if they would load it with the real Ubuntu distro instead of this Gnome hybrid hack of gOS. And loading Windows on one of these is unecessary and would only tend to overload its resources – and for what purpose?

Yes, installing more RAM would be a good idea, and Everex has made this difficult to do. However, aside from the startup time, why does it need to go faster? It’s for checking your email, writing memos and playing the occasional game of solitaire. I think we’re so used to super fast PCs now, that many of us are looking at this through the wrong pair of glasses.

And many reviewers seem to know only about one of the “popular” brands of OS and are not necessarily familiar with the various Linux distributions. But when you’ve got one of “everything” sitting in your home or office, then you might be qualified to speak. But most of you don’t.

Although, like a review said: gOS is a JOKE.