Cloudbook promo video not exactly high-budget

We're certain Everex was aiming to inspire some gadget-lust with this promo video for the oft-delayed Cloudbook, but shooting it on what appears to be VHS under florescent lights just makes it look like a different kind of porn entirely. Check the whole video after the break, and note that ship date: February 15th. Hmm, maybe we'll see this thing on time after all.

[Via Eee Site]

[imacmatt09 @ Feb 4th 2008 4:54PM]

Windows movie maker?

[Rudiger @ Feb 4th 2008 5:14PM]

At least it didn't have any star wipes.

[Rob Conway @ Feb 4th 2008 5:47PM]

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".

[Taylor @ Feb 4th 2008 6:30PM]

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...

[Sauerkraut @ Feb 4th 2008 4:55PM]

I've been saying it the entire time, this company sucks and this thing is getting way to much attention

[Dave @ Feb 4th 2008 5:16PM]

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...

[Jesse S @ Feb 4th 2008 5:32PM]

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.

[Sauerkraut @ Feb 4th 2008 5:40PM]

Yes and yes

the EEE is well made at least

[dramamoose @ Feb 4th 2008 6:39PM]

@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.

[Tits @ Feb 4th 2008 6:52PM]

@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!

[matt @ Feb 4th 2008 7:23PM]

haha.. you're right, MBAs are useless

[Abuzar @ Feb 4th 2008 9:38PM]

The first time I read that, I thought "Master of Business Administration is useless?". lol

[Jim @ Feb 4th 2008 4:59PM]

Somebody please tell me the name of that song!

[L @ Feb 4th 2008 5:03PM]

You want to torture people, ADMIT IT!

[Ray @ Feb 4th 2008 5:32PM]

sounds like a stylized version of "My Girl"

[Alex @ Feb 4th 2008 5:00PM]

wow that so makes me want to go buy one...... oh wait I already have an EEE PC on the way!

[BIlly @ Feb 4th 2008 5:02PM]

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.

[Rudiger @ Feb 4th 2008 5:13PM]

It's plugged in because there's no trackpad or other input-device to use the pointer.

[karts41 @ Feb 4th 2008 6:37PM]

The camera work was terrible.

*wobble wobble*

[Stasguy @ Feb 4th 2008 5:08PM]

the picture makes it look widescreen

[Stasguy @ Feb 4th 2008 5:08PM]

the picture makes it look widescreen

[dvdivx @ Feb 4th 2008 5:08PM]

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.

[mr.me! @ Feb 4th 2008 5:10PM]

They need steve ballmer to sell this thing, worked for windows

[Mehul @ Feb 4th 2008 5:11PM]

How do you use the cursor? I dont see any joystick or trackpad.

[mr.me! @ Feb 4th 2008 5:12PM]

well in the video it seems to be doing it itself...no-one using a touchpad, no mouse, its mind control!

[Gonzalo @ Feb 4th 2008 5:27PM]

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)

[Mehul @ Feb 4th 2008 5:24PM]

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!

[ReggieXuk @ Feb 4th 2008 5:17PM]

we're all thinking it.

its sad how company's creep in the shadow of other company's success.

[Dave @ Feb 4th 2008 5:20PM]

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...

[Zzephyr @ Feb 4th 2008 5:21PM]

So long as it fits in my cargo pants, s'ok.

[joe23521 @ Feb 4th 2008 5:22PM]

I thought it was a YouTube Macbook Air parody.

[austin @ Feb 4th 2008 5:28PM]

like a cloud, this thing be noticed by millions, admired by few, then dissapear without anyone caring

[Reader @ Feb 5th 2008 12:28AM]

Well played.

[David Vogt @ Feb 4th 2008 5:32PM]

Wow, what a great laugh. Thanks! The music really made it golden.

[Balam Herrera @ Feb 4th 2008 5:35PM]

what a cheap copy of an apple commercial. The camera movements arent even right.

[dan @ Feb 4th 2008 5:52PM]

Its similar to the easynote laptop of Packard Bell company, in europe for 699 euros, and this model is ugly very ugly.

[peepeepants @ Feb 4th 2008 5:54PM]

With some post-processing, this could actually look all right...

[Esat @ Feb 4th 2008 5:56PM]

The product, not to mention the video, looks a about a decade and a half old.

[mushrooshi @ Feb 4th 2008 5:58PM]

The notebook is just as horrifying as the singing.

[dmccullum @ Feb 4th 2008 6:22PM]

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...

[paul34 @ Feb 4th 2008 6:23PM]

Wow, that was... embarrassingly bad.

[Paris @ Feb 4th 2008 7:15PM]

Chou Chou Choubidouba.
Chou Chou Choubidouba.
Ooooo Dadadada dadada danananaiaia.

Chou Chou Choubidouba.

Choubidouba.

[holycow @ Feb 4th 2008 7:18PM]

If it came out of a manila envelope, engadget would've loved the ad!

[Matt Peckham @ Feb 4th 2008 7:52PM]

Looks like you can flip open the "hood and insert your Atari 400/800 cartridges! Sweet!!!

[mcbeanish @ Feb 4th 2008 8:03PM]

boo. video is no longer available! damn!

[Christopher J. @ Feb 4th 2008 8:12PM]

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.

[Brian @ Feb 4th 2008 8:43PM]

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?

[The Drizzle @ Feb 4th 2008 9:07PM]

It's gone....sad times....

[robert @ Feb 4th 2008 10:04PM]

Thought it said Cloudbook porno video.

[Ian @ Mar 6th 2008 9:55PM]

It's still on Dailymotion (don't rush!)