Cloudbook - Day 3 and 4
February 24th, 2008 by Chris
So I’m combining a post here from day 3 and 4 of my experiences with the Coudbook. I have to admit I did something really bad. I couldn’t resist really. I tried to have my cake and eat it too, but after a few hours of repartitioning and installing off of a couple of super slow USB thumb drives, I decided to put Windows XP on the Cloudbook to see what it could do in that arena. There were a few requests on the cloudbooker.com forums to get some games running. I happened to have a copy of Grand Theft Auto:Vice City here, so I loaded it up. Here’s a few videos of the results of that:
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February 24th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
You just made many future cloudbookers happy with the videos. Thanks and good luck. And I believe what you shared goes against what the spokesperson from Everex said about the machines capabilities.
February 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
My mistake, it was Halo. Paul Kim wrote to Barlow: “Sorry to tell you this but Halo won’t work on the CloudBook/gOS or XP because of the lack of driver support. We’re thinking about using a 945GSEchipset later in the year. If you’re still in the market for a UMPC then,hope you will keep us in mind. Regards,Paul”
February 24th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Some questions:
1) How’s the build quality?
2) Do the keys rattle or shift at all?
3) Does the plastic feel cheap?
4) Are those thin hinges good?
5) Can you plug it into a desktop and have the HD show up as a drive?
6) How did you install XP? I don’t have an external CD drive and was wondering if there was some way to load it by plugging it into the desktop and using the desktop’s CD drive. (I might have to wait for someone to work that out, if possible, and post detailed instructions for an eejit like me.)
7) Did installing XP get rid of the WiFi drop problems gOS had?
You’re the Go-To Guy right now! Thanks for your efforts!
February 24th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
That damned smiley face is supposed to be a number 8. Hate emoticons!!
February 24th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Hey buddy, could you try running halo and see if Paul and the guys at Everex gave me wrong info?
Thanks
February 24th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
You are my hero! I will be sending back this low-memory EEE and getting my money back. I hope Wal-mart is still selling Cloudbooks by then :).
JAmerican
February 24th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
[...] you’re a gamer and interested in the Cloudbook, check out this review from Hey Baccala. There are three attached videos that show the game being played, and it looks [...]
February 24th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Very nice review! To help out with Barlow’s request, I think this might interest you:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo/downloads.aspx
I don’t know if this is the one he’s taking about, but there’s a free trial on it, and the specs seem about the same as vice city.
February 24th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
you=god
now just give me the detailed instructions for dual booting with gOS and XP and i will give you my undying respect and admiration:P
February 24th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
YOU SEXY BITCH!!!!!!!
i am not even thru the first one and i am really goona crap my pantssssssssssssss
fuck EEE killer this is a PSP killer
nuff said
February 26th, 2008 at 9:43 am
[...] can be seen from his videos, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City ran pretty well. HalfLife Blue Shift was equally smooth, despite not [...]
March 6th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Has anyone installed and tried to see if Alien Arena is playable on the cloudbook. If it is I am for sure going to buy one.