Looks like the Asus Eee PC is going to get some competition, Everex have launched their take on the Ultra-Mobile PC at CES.

The $399 Cloudbook CE1200V sports a similar custom linux operating system based on gOS Rocket and comes with a host of bundled applictions, Mozilla Firefox, gMail, Meebo, Skype, GIMP, Movie Player, RythemBox, OpenOffice and more.

Weighing in at only 9 pounds , a stand out feature is a built in hard drive (30GB) which is much higher capacity than the flash based offerings on the Eee, the quoted 5 hour battery life is good too.

The Cloudbook should be available from walmart from the 25th January.

Hardware Specifications

• 1.2GHz, VIA C7®-M Processor ULV
  512MB DDR2 533MHz
• SDRAM
• 30GB Hard Disk Drive
• 7" WVGA TFT Display (800 x 480)
• VIA UniChrome Pro IGP Graphics
• VIA High-Definition Audio
• 802.11b/g
• 10/100 Ethernet Port
• DVI-I Port
• 2 USB 2.0 Ports
• 4-in1 Media Card Reader
• 1.3MP Webcam
• Headphone/Line-Out Port
• Microphone/Line-In Port
• Set of Stereo Speaker
• Touchpad
• 4-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery

• gOS Rocket operating system
• Mozilla Firefox
• gMail
• Meebo
• Skype
• Wikipedia
• GIMP
• Blogger
• YouTube
• Xing Movie Player
• RythemBox
• Faqly
• Facebook
• OpenOffice.org 2.3 (includes WRITER, IMPRESS, DRAW, CALC, BASE)