For a minute it looked like there might be a worthy competitor to Asus' awesome Eee PC.

Alas, no.

The machine simply isn't living up to expectations, at least that's been Laptopmag's impression so far (unboxing pics and video here). Even spending some quality time with the Cloudbook isn't helping matters much.

You guessed it: Asus wins this round.

Long story short, while all the parts are there, they underwent some weird Frankenstein-ization – with flaky software to boot. Time to hand out the pitchforks and cue the angry villagers.

[via Gizmodo]