Tech Rant

Behold, the Everex gPC. It is mini-PC sold at Walmart with obviously borrowed stylings. It runs a super stripped down version of linux that relies on the internet for nearly all of its apps. Gmail = mail. Google docs = documents. The whole thing is so Google-based that the two companies had to come out with press releases that stated that gPC was not a Google product.

So what's not to like? First, it lacks wifi. Everything it uses is web-based but it lacks WIFI. There is no 1337 to adequately express my geek-rage. Second, $499. That makes it $20 more expensive than a MacMini in Apple's refurb store. And for that you get a Mac, with OSX, and WIFI and blutooth, and on and on and on. Perhaps this is an elaborate scheme to keep Walmart shoppers down. Add the digital divide to the economic and we city-folk can lord over them forever! Mu. ha. ha. haaaaaaarrrgh. Whatev.

The reality is, Everex sucks. Their "cloudbook", a 7" low-cost laptop like Asus eeePC (http://www.asus.com/), failed so bad on shipping that all units were recalled. Of course, they might still suck when fixed.