Wal-Mart’s Getting Cloudbook

Posted on January 9, 2008 at 11:15 am (PST)

At 9 Inches, 2 pounds, 5 hours of battery life, the Cloudbook comes with Surf, email, blog, IM, Skype, compute. The Everex / Packard Bell / FIC Nanobook / Cloudbook / CE260 will be selling at (of all places) Wal-Mart as of January 25th.

With 1.2GHz VIA C7-M CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive, and a 800 x 480 display — and all for $399.

Installed software includes: Mozilla Firefox, gMail, Meebo, Skype, Wikipedia, GIMP, Blogger, YouTube, Xing Movie Player, RythemBox, Faqly, Facebook and OpenOffice.org 2.3 (includes WRITER, IMPRESS, DRAW, CALC, BASE).