The Everex VA1500V, the company’s new low-cost notebook PC, is now available.
This $399 15.4-inch laptop, also known as the gBook, is based on the VIA C7-M processor at 1.50GHz and the VIA Chrome9 HC integrated graphics. The Everex VA1500V comes with 512MB of DDR2 memory, a 60GB hard drive, and a DVD/CD-RW Combo optical drive. Its display has a resolution of 1440-by-900 pixels.
The notebook has a built-in Atheros AR5005G 802.11b/g Wireless Network Adapter, an Ethernet LAN port, three USB ports, and a VGA output, but it has no PC Card or ExpressCard slot.
The system weighs 5.3 lbs with a standard 3-cell battery.
As same as the 7-inch Everex CloudBook, the gBook VA1500V runs the gOS V2, a Linux-based operating system. With the gOS, you get a lot of free preinstalled software including OpenOffice.org 2.3, Mozilla Firefox, Meebo, Skype, GIMP, Xine Movie Player, and various Google applications.
The Everex VA1500V is currently available at NewEgg.
Do not want to pay the “Microsoft Tax” when I buy a laptop. Not to mention that having to pay it for “Vista” is even worse than being forced to take “XP.”
I will be quite happy loading Ubuntu on it and throwing 2GB of RAM into it for $50 (already on order)
May eventually get a larger hard drive and/or batter for it. (But it should handle the basics just fine for me…)
By the way the Dell comes out to $449 by my calculations… I suspect the Dells still include a MS Tax since they never seem to have a comparable configurations between their Ubuntu and Windows based models. Makes it real hard to do a head to head comparison of the “price.”
I like to hear that the prices are dropping on computers. I have heard of the GPC that is supposed to be selling at Wal-mart for a whopping two hundred.
Its already selling on new egg for that price. I don’t believe it comes with a monitor though. Fine by me. I can get a crt at the local thrift for less than twenty.
Good. Where is this available in Chennai, India? Can I have more info about this Laptop?
I can’t understand why anyone would by this machine if you can buy Dell Vostro 1000 / AMD Athlon 64 X2 / 15 inch / 1Gb / 80 Gb / DVD-RW / ATI Radeon Xpress 115 for $419