Cloudbook promo video not exactly high-budget
By Nilay Patel 
posted Feb 4th 2008 4:48PM
posted Feb 4th 2008 4:48PM
[Via Eee Site]
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Windows movie maker?
At least it didn't have any star wipes.
haha, that's probably THE cheapest gadget commercial I have ever seen in my life.
how do those supercool internet guys say it, oh yeah "epic fail".
Its not that the video was THAT poorly edited (well, it was) but the worst part was that it looked like they were hand holding the camera and pushing the laptop for the pan shots, so everything was shaky and uneven. Well done...
I've been saying it the entire time, this company sucks and this thing is getting way to much attention
well, being as they will probably sell this at Wal-Mart also, don't you think that the commercial is getting the target audience? haha. now all they need is one in spanish...
Why? It's an eeePC with a HDD. What could be better?
Or are you saying that the eeePC got too much attention, too? If so, I agree. I've used one, and I think it's as useless as a MBA. Too big, too small, too underpowered.
Making a product that comes between a UMPC and a laptop is just...dumb.
Yes and yes
the EEE is well made at least
@Jesse:
The EEE may be as useless as a MBA, but it costs a fraction of the price. Lower the MBA to even half its current price, and interest would pick WAY up.
@Jesse;
The eee is very useful if you need something small and light. its more powerful than the last G4 generation and people was actually working on those...
It enter my camera bag and its lighter than my camera!
I can do internet, read comics, write or use openoffice, play movies, backup my camera sd card, play games (morrowind, neverwinternights, wow...)and the keyboard is really efficient (I got medium thin hands!)
you cannot complain really... im just sad we dont have a 299$ model here in japan!
haha.. you're right, MBAs are useless
The first time I read that, I thought "Master of Business Administration is useless?". lol
Somebody please tell me the name of that song!
You want to torture people, ADMIT IT!
sounds like a stylized version of "My Girl"
wow that so makes me want to go buy one...... oh wait I already have an EEE PC on the way!
It's a freaking notebook and they have it plugged in.... wtf, seriously. I could shoot a better product video on my cell phone using 0 editors.
It's plugged in because there's no trackpad or other input-device to use the pointer.
The camera work was terrible.
*wobble wobble*
the picture makes it look widescreen
the picture makes it look widescreen
They copied the low resolution of the EEEPC and then added an underpowered VIA chip. At least they have a real hard drive.
If they had a higher resolution screen and an Intel chip the EEEPC would have had some real competition.
They need steve ballmer to sell this thing, worked for windows
How do you use the cursor? I dont see any joystick or trackpad.
well in the video it seems to be doing it itself...no-one using a touchpad, no mouse, its mind control!
There's some videos on YouTube (think the user name is JKK something) about it...you use ut as some freaky joystick the touchpad is on the top right corner and the left/rigt click is on the other.Is freaking AWFUL!!! (at least is an attempt to make more UMPC affordable, with some luck other with follow the example more succesufully)
Actually the one shot in there where they are showing the roll-over effect of the program dock, we can actually see the mouse wire going out of the frame. They couldnt even use a wireless mouse!
we're all thinking it.
its sad how company's creep in the shadow of other company's success.
Let's go right, now left, now right, now left. No no no, right was better! -Okay, but only if we go left again. What's the best song you can think about? -Dubedoba! -Oh, yeah, that's a great song, it'll sell loads of notebooks. -Yey, but let's go right just one more time...
So long as it fits in my cargo pants, s'ok.
I thought it was a YouTube Macbook Air parody.
like a cloud, this thing be noticed by millions, admired by few, then dissapear without anyone caring
Well played.
Wow, what a great laugh. Thanks! The music really made it golden.
what a cheap copy of an apple commercial. The camera movements arent even right.
Its similar to the easynote laptop of Packard Bell company, in europe for 699 euros, and this model is ugly very ugly.
With some post-processing, this could actually look all right...
The product, not to mention the video, looks a about a decade and a half old.
The notebook is just as horrifying as the singing.
Ack! Comic Sans.... *Puke*
Ack! Horrible music... *Puke*
Ack! No, you don't have the artistic sense to pull off a MacBook Air-esque commercial... *Puke*
Ack! Welcome to the age of modern cameras... NOT... *Puke*
Ack! Nevermind...
Wow, that was... embarrassingly bad.
Chou Chou Choubidouba.
Chou Chou Choubidouba.
Ooooo Dadadada dadada danananaiaia.
Chou Chou Choubidouba.
Choubidouba.
If it came out of a manila envelope, engadget would've loved the ad!
Looks like you can flip open the "hood and insert your Atari 400/800 cartridges! Sweet!!!
boo. video is no longer available! damn!
So many people....with so little knowledge.
Oooohh.. look everyone! Sparkly shiny stuff. Yeah, you likey?...go...fetch. Shiny $3100 macbook air. Yes, you likey likey to finance shiny shiny stuff you can't afford.
Started to watch this video on my iPod touch (must have been pulled after being halfway downloaded), but I got to see the lovely flickering screen and hear the "Doop doop. Dooby-doop" a time or two. First rate w/ the OS X style dock and a big fat Google Search widget smack dab in the center of the screen. Someone has bound to have grabbed this before it got yanked. Any mirrors anyone?
It's gone....sad times....
Thought it said Cloudbook porno video.
It's still on Dailymotion (don't rush!)