CherryPal PC to ship on Nov. 4 with double the storage space
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Last we reported, the launch of the CherryPal PC was very much up in the air. As Engadget notes, CherryPal has updated its shopping page for this tiny, cloud-computing PC with two important items.
1. The CherryPal PC will ship on election day, November 4. "Guaranteed!!!" it says on the CherryPal Web site, with three exclamation points. To prove it's serious about that 11/4 ship date, the model number has changed from C100 to C114.
2. The capacity of the CherryPal's flash drive has doubled. Once and future orders will get 8GB of storage. The price stays the same: $249.
Elsewhere on the company's Web site, it notes that the CherryPal PC will feature a slimmer casing. The system weighs 10 ounces and measures 5.8 inches deep, 4.2 inches wide, and 1.3 inches high.
The additional space is nice, but the revolutionary idea behind the product stays the same. Instead of storing your apps and docs locally as you do on your PC's hard drive, you'll store them on CherryPal's servers in the cloud that is the Internet. With no moving parts and fewer components, the CherryPal PC promises to be cheaper, greener, and easier to manage than a traditional PC. The PC doesn't include a traditional operating system; instead, the CherryPal PC uses Firefox as its main interface. The company will reportedly offer 50GB of password-protected online storage space with each purchase.
I'm one of the many (it seems) who foolishly pre-ordered a CherryPal and paid out hard earned money for the privilege.
Despite many requests for a refund, including direct to Max Seybold the CEO (who advised they were having PayPal "issues" and would send a check) I've received nothing and now they just ignore my emails.
As far as I'm concerned, the only thing "green" about CherryPal is the colour of my money that they refuse to return and I'm not alone in this it seems.
I'm hoping that one of the tech news sites will consider a story on this company to try and entice Max Seybold out of the woodwork to explain why he won't return the money that isn't his and why he is still trying to sell a product on his website that it seems he cannot ship.
MAX SEYBOLD!!! WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE'S MY MONEY? WHY DON'T YOU CRAWL OUT FROM UNDER THE ROCK YOU ARE UNDER AND RESPOND TO MY EMAILS?
- by nunz46408 December 17, 2008 8:09 PM PST
- Better late then never. Got mine by Dec. 16, / ordered on Nov. 4. They did include the T-Shirt as promised. Not too much trouble to setup the wireless. A powered USB hub did work on my wireless keyboard. I'm going to try installing a printer.
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- by jakemochas May 19, 2009 7:23 AM PDT
- Use box.net to transfer files
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(6 Comments)Some minor things: scroll-wheel not working on mouse. Not sure about the computing 'Cloud'. nothing on the device indicates where it is or how to save files there. Need more documentation to answer these questions.
Performance does not match my $1300 laptop running Vista, but wouldn't expect it. The browser is Minefield, which is in some form of beta. I just thought it would use regular Firefox.
If I can get the scroll-wheel, printer and put files out on the cloud (And get to them from a non-cherrypal computer like the one at work.), I'll be fully pleased with my purchase.