The Raon Digital Everun Note is a tiny laptop that bucks the netbook trend by packing a dual core AMD Turion 64×2 CPU, a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, and a starting price tag of around $900 (although the price for a base model eventually dropped by a few hundred bucks). But even with that high price, (or possibly because of it) it looks like Raon Digital may have been having a difficult time.

UMPC Portal reports that stories about reduced service levels and lack of stock have been coming in for months. Pocketables says that the company may have landed in bankruptcy court. The biggest sign that something’s going on? The company’s web site is down.

You can still pick up a Raon Digital Everun Note from Dynamism for $599. But I wouldn’t hold out hope that you’ll be able to receive tech support or customer service from Raon Digital for this laptop if anything goes wrong. Dynamism does offer its own service plan for the notebook though.

I’m still reluctant to call the Raon Digital Everun Note a netbook, thanks to its high $900 price tag. But that doesn’t make this tiny laptop any less attractive. It’s got a high resolution 1024 x 600 pixel, 7 inch display and a dual-core AMD Turion 64×2 CPU.  And it performs quite respectably on benchmarking tests.

Lest you think beauty is just skin deep, jkkmobile has posted some photos of this little laptop’s insides. While it doesn’t look to me like there’s a whole heck of a lot of room int here for adding extras like a 3G modem or GPS receiver, jkkmobile tends to look at laptops differently than I do, and he sees the space. So let the hacking begin!

Now if someone could just do a little hacking and slashing on the price…

As you may have guessed from my last post on the Everun Note, I’m a bit reluctant to call an $879 subnotebook a liliputer, netbook, or anything else that seems to imply cheap. But the upcoming laptop from Raon Digital is certainly sexy, what with its dual core AMD CPU and it’s diminutive size. If that’s the sort of thing you can get excited about, it looks like you won’t have to wait too long to get your hands on one.

UMPC Portal reports that Raon Digital will begin shipping units on September 19th, and you should be able to pick one up from a reseller the following week. Or you could buy 2 or 3 Dell Inspiron Minis instead.

Chippy at UMPC Portal also got his hands on a product manual and discovered a few interesting things about the notebook. For example, the front side bus will automatically clock down a bit when you’re running on battery power. While this will help prolong battery life, it means you’ll take a performance hit when you’re away from a wall socket. For more details, make sure to check out the full article at UMPC Portal.

To their credit, Raon Digital never said the company’s upcoming Everun Note was a netbook or a UMPC. But it is tiny, at just 7.9″ x 4.6″ x 1.1″ and weighing just 1.6 pounds. That makes this laptop smaller and lighter than most netbooks.

But it also happens to pack a 1.2GHz AMD Turion 64×2 dual core processor, which means it’s also more powerful (although that power comes at the expense of battery life — the Everun Note tops out at around 2.5 hours).

I already knew the Everun Not was going to be more expensive than your typical netbook. The price I’d initially heard was around $800. But Chippy at UMPC Portal just got an official product brochure which states the suggested prices is $879 before tax and shipping. In other words, you’re looking at a $900 purchase.

Now, by last year’s standards, that would be an excellent price for a small computer with this kind of power. But you can buy a netbook for half or even a third that price. So what do you think, is the Everun Note an expensive netbook or a cheap subnotebook?

Chippy at UMPC Portal received some documents from the folks at Raon Digital that suggest the upcoming Everun Note mini-laptop will be fast. Like blazing fast. Like faster than most full sized notebooks fast.

This shouldn’t be particularly surprising, since the this will also be one of the first netbooks or ultra mobile PCs to sport a dual-core CPU. But some folks think the numbers are too good to be true. And you know what? There’s a good chance they are. Because while benchmarks are nice, I think it’s safe to say we should take them with a grain of salt when they’re recorded by the manufacturer of the laptop in question.

Raon Digital’s Everun Note has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel touchscreen display, and weighs just 742 grams. The company says it can get three hours of battery life, but I’m guessing you’ll only get that kind of juice if the PC is running in power saving mode. If you want to squeeze as much power as possible out of the dual core AMD Turian CPU, you’ll probably sacrifice battery life.

Raon Digital, a company best known (if known at all) for making keyboard-less UMPCs has announced its first entry into the netbook market. AVING USA reports that the Raon Digital Everun Note sports a tiny 7 inch screen, but it has a 1024 x 600 pixel display which is much sharper than the 800 x 480 pixel display you’ll find on most low cost ultraportables.

The computer also has what appearst o be a rather tiny keyboard, and two memory card slots. Here’s a rundown of the rest of the specs:

• CPU: 1.2GHz AMD Turion 64×2 Dual Core
• OS: Windows XP Home Edition
• RAM: 1GB
• Storage: 12GB SSD to 80GB HDD
• Connectivity: 802.11b/g WiFi, bluetooth
• Expansion: 2 USB ports, 1 USB mini, 1 PCIExpress, USIM card slot, SD card slot
• Webcam: 1.3 megapixels
• Dual monitor: Supports external displays up to 1920 x 1200 pixels
• Battery: 2.5 hours
• Size:200mm x 118mm x 27.5mm

No word on price, but that AMD Turion chip makes me think the Everun Note won’t exactly be the cheapest netbook around. AVING reports that the computer should be available in Korea and North America in early September.

[via UMPC Portal]