I have in my hands the most powerful gaming portable pc on the planet , and it has nothing to do with the hardware inside it .
The Toshiba Libretto W100 as you all know is a tablet from the future , legend has it only 50 to 100 of them were sent back in time by Toshiba scientists from the year 2525 to 2010 ....
And so having obtained one of these from a Ms Connor somewhere near the Texican border , I decided today as promised to marry this device with onlive THE game delivery system of the future...
You may have heard tech blogs go on about Alienware M11xs that set you back 4g , or the concept dual screen portable pc mockup erhhm soon to be maybe released for too much money Razer Switchblade.... here is the video it shows hardware running the over decade old Quake 3 , and the not so intensive World of Warcraft .. meh! say we all!... for today I have been playing the likes of Batman Arkham , Unreal III , Assassins Creed 2 and many more thanks to onlive and the Toshiba Libretto ( I knew I bought it for some reason) .So dude save your money any netbook , laptop , or folly like the Toshiba Libretto W100 outdoes the Switchblade and any Alienware too : here let me show you how another week of my life has been totally wa...devoted to games...
first for illustrative purposes this is a MOCKUP VIDEO of the concept that is Razer Switchblade :
Now lets get to some real high end portable gaming , on the ultraportable dual touch screen 7 inch Windows 7 Toshiba Libretto W100 , which when running onlive makes your epenis hardware so obsolete it is hilarious and not in a mean Ricky Gervais way! Remember folks you too can play any of these games , from onlive! No need to battle T800s to get your hands on a W100 ... and absolutely no need to pay 1000s for a gaming laptop:
On with the show: The Libretto W100 has one of the fastest wireless modems going , I get 5mbps from my 50 meg connection when downloading Steam games , so onlive should be no problem : Apologies for my svga camera! the actual display resolution in game is razor sharp , indistinguishable from a high end pc check the still pics above! or try it for yourself !
The onlive interface running on W100 , like on the joojoo tablet , really shines on a touch screen , here in an even more portable fashion , you can hold this in your hands ,like a Nintendo DS or 3DS , just remember to have flame retardant fingers as that top screen and its cpu run HOT! But not as hot as normal, as the games are being streamed , your hardware is actually not going to heat up like it normally does every time a flash anim starts in a browser. So a pleasant side effect of using onlive , is that your netbook/tablet/pc/mac actually runs cooler . How do I know this , well when I have a Steam game chugging along on the top screen of the W100 , I could cook you breakfast off the back of it, but with onlive its just has a fuzzy warmness . Of course this is negated by the fact that I now use it longer and the heat eventually builds up any way !
so lets try a game how about Unreal Tournament III on the Toshiba Libretto : no install just click and play or touch and play with a tablet
First some static screens with a 5mp camera , to give an impression as to how sharp the game actually looks , the videos are svga!
The first test I did was Unreal 3: with the touch screen keyboard : the small screen is difficult to film with a lo res camera , see it in real life the picture is razor sharp , as good as your/my l33t rig !
So the touch screen controls for this game are not that great , and I cannot be bothered to remap them , so time to play Unreal Tournament 3 with a wireless keyboard and mouse on the Toshiba Libretto : Result : awesome ! Why wireless ,well we need to stress onlive , the great worry with streamed games , especially high speed FPS games is controller input lag , and the good news is even with a wireless keyboard and mouse there is none that I can perceive .
Und now , Unreal Tournament 3 split across 2 screens in the open book vertical orientation of the Toshiba Libretto W100 , totally useless but people will ask for it so here it is
As you can see onlive on the Libretto W100 can handle any Unreal 3 engine game :
But how about games based on proprietary engines? Rebellions Aliens Vs Predator is a graphically intense power hungry game on a desktop , here it flies on the Libretto ....
I tell you this onlive ....it's...Voodoo magic, man:
they come out at night mostly...mostly....
lets check survivor mode first a static screen to show you the detail before my feeble camera shows you the video
Mafia II one of the most gpu intensive games on the best of hardware , here it is on a 7 inch ultraportable!
Lara Croft Underwear ... Sorry Lara Croft Underworld :
and here is still to give you an idea of how sharp it actually looks :
So here I leave Ms Croft stranded on her boat , but do not fret , I will pick up with her from the exact same place on my desktop or joojoo...
And now onto the new Prince Of Persia adventure :
It is frankly liberating to never have to worry about installing , downloading , patching or even having to tailor each games graphics settings , if only they had onlive in the DOS era , think of all those hours wasted on making cfg and boot disks!
Not bad lets stress test onlive and the Libretto a little , next I use onlive to mess around in the Arena and play a game in the top touch screen whilst browsing my blog in Internet explorer 9 on the second lower screen : Could you do this on your desktop without windows closing and minimizing or locking ?
I fail miserably at Ninja Blade on the top screen , I am playing with a simple wireless keyboard and mouse ensemble .. should have stuck to the 360 pad!
Why so many tests and videos across 2 tablets and a desktop? well you got me I like games , and also because with a cloud based streamed game service ,you want to check how many actual dropouts and crashes occur , now did you see any? over the entire 3 day test ? onlive is real and works , you are probably more likely to see one of your traditionally installed pc games crash to the desktop than one you are playing onlive . And just think no drivers or patches to apply ever!
The ultimate console and games machine thanks to onlive is NOW COMPLETELY HARDWARE INDEPENDENT , you want to play the most complex PC games , instantly you can ,fed up with buying Steam games one at time , you can pay a subscription fee and never have to torture yourself with another week , weekend , or mid week sale decision again , it has taken time but in the short space of a year gamers are set to embrace the Cloud , and services like onlive are showing the way . If you do not have the broadband to run it , lobby your government and demand it, and in all likelihood if you are at all serious about games you will already have the Broadband speed required , now you can free it from downloading and switch to streaming instead!
You will have heard a lot about revolutionary hardware at this years CES , there are all the usual suspects with new consoles , gpus , tablets and cpus , that have you locked into that constant cycle of upgrading . Well onlive is your liberator , it is the most revolutionary thing to happen in the history of video games .
There is no way to emphasize greatly enough the changes that the Cloud will bring a service like onlive is only a herald of what is to come . A time where software publishers are the power and hardware , whether pc mac sony Nintendo or Microsoft is irrelevant .
This is why I believe that the next Playstation , the next Xbox , the next Nintendo , or the mighty fabled Apple gaming machine , may not be based on hardware at all , just a very fast broadband connection to streaming game servers , where we subscribe , I ranted about this here long ago . Sound like science fiction ?well , the tech is already here with onlive as you can see has been keeping me occupied over the last week .
Now lets wait and see what Dave Perry and GAIKAI can come up with ...
Viva Onlive ! embrace the People of the Cloud!
You may have heard tech blogs go on about Alienware M11xs that set you back 4g , or the concept dual screen portable pc mockup erhhm soon to be maybe released for too much money Razer Switchblade.... here is the video it shows hardware running the over decade old Quake 3 , and the not so intensive World of Warcraft .. meh! say we all!... for today I have been playing the likes of Batman Arkham , Unreal III , Assassins Creed 2 and many more thanks to onlive and the Toshiba Libretto ( I knew I bought it for some reason) .So dude save your money any netbook , laptop , or folly like the Toshiba Libretto W100 outdoes the Switchblade and any Alienware too : here let me show you how another week of my life has been totally wa...devoted to games...
first for illustrative purposes this is a MOCKUP VIDEO of the concept that is Razer Switchblade :
Now lets get to some real high end portable gaming , on the ultraportable dual touch screen 7 inch Windows 7 Toshiba Libretto W100 , which when running onlive makes your epenis hardware so obsolete it is hilarious and not in a mean Ricky Gervais way! Remember folks you too can play any of these games , from onlive! No need to battle T800s to get your hands on a W100 ... and absolutely no need to pay 1000s for a gaming laptop:
On with the show: The Libretto W100 has one of the fastest wireless modems going , I get 5mbps from my 50 meg connection when downloading Steam games , so onlive should be no problem : Apologies for my svga camera! the actual display resolution in game is razor sharp , indistinguishable from a high end pc check the still pics above! or try it for yourself !
The onlive interface running on W100 , like on the joojoo tablet , really shines on a touch screen , here in an even more portable fashion , you can hold this in your hands ,like a Nintendo DS or 3DS , just remember to have flame retardant fingers as that top screen and its cpu run HOT! But not as hot as normal, as the games are being streamed , your hardware is actually not going to heat up like it normally does every time a flash anim starts in a browser. So a pleasant side effect of using onlive , is that your netbook/tablet/pc/mac actually runs cooler . How do I know this , well when I have a Steam game chugging along on the top screen of the W100 , I could cook you breakfast off the back of it, but with onlive its just has a fuzzy warmness . Of course this is negated by the fact that I now use it longer and the heat eventually builds up any way !
Heat is no problem if you consider that for control the best device is stil an external keyboard and mouse for fps , and or a Xbox 360 wireless controller for everything else , this as you will see is a lesson I learned as I tested more games : The Libretto will let you hook almost any control device to it , and many onlive games are optimised for joypads.
Steve Jobs (get well soon dude) should also note absolutely no fingers need to be filed down as you can see from me using the coming soon section it is absolutely possible to use a 7 inch tablet , which also packs 2nd 7 inch screen and runs a full pc OS! and I did not even mention Flash!
so lets try a game how about Unreal Tournament III on the Toshiba Libretto : no install just click and play or touch and play with a tablet
First some static screens with a 5mp camera , to give an impression as to how sharp the game actually looks , the videos are svga!
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| it's all too bea-ut-iful.... |
So the touch screen controls for this game are not that great , and I cannot be bothered to remap them , so time to play Unreal Tournament 3 with a wireless keyboard and mouse on the Toshiba Libretto : Result : awesome ! Why wireless ,well we need to stress onlive , the great worry with streamed games , especially high speed FPS games is controller input lag , and the good news is even with a wireless keyboard and mouse there is none that I can perceive .
Und now , Unreal Tournament 3 split across 2 screens in the open book vertical orientation of the Toshiba Libretto W100 , totally useless but people will ask for it so here it is
As you can see onlive on the Libretto W100 can handle any Unreal 3 engine game :
But how about games based on proprietary engines? Rebellions Aliens Vs Predator is a graphically intense power hungry game on a desktop , here it flies on the Libretto ....
look Ma its 3d without glasses :
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| ok it's motion blur ! onlive is good but not that good ! |
they come out at night mostly...mostly....
lets check survivor mode first a static screen to show you the detail before my feeble camera shows you the video
Mafia II one of the most gpu intensive games on the best of hardware , here it is on a 7 inch ultraportable!
 |
Lara Croft Underwear ... Sorry Lara Croft Underworld :
A very cool feature of onlive is persistent game saves and instant game continuation independent of devices/hardware . So when I took up Lady Crofts offer of following her round a..sorry follow her around ........for one of her adventures , I started on the Fusion Garage Joojoo , a day later when I was testing the game on the Toshiba Libretto I continued from the exact same point as I left off on a completely different device , and later on the same day I decided to pick up with Lara on my Desktop ! My devotion to Ms Croft truly knows no hardware bounds.....thanks to onlive ! You can do something similar with Steam , but not instantly , and you have to insure your hardware is up to spec , I could not have done the same with Steam at all with a game this detailed , and I would have spent a day redownloading !
and here is still to give you an idea of how sharp it actually looks :
So here I leave Ms Croft stranded on her boat , but do not fret , I will pick up with her from the exact same place on my desktop or joojoo...
Next we have Rocksteady Studio's Batman Arkham Asylum GOTYR , this is a game which pushes the Unreal III engine on the fastest of hardware , now we are going to see it running full spec on a 7 inch ULV cpu powered tablet ! Just another example of how the Toshiba Libretto W100 became the most powerful hand held gaming device on the planet thanks to onlive
And now onto the new Prince Of Persia adventure :
It is frankly liberating to never have to worry about installing , downloading , patching or even having to tailor each games graphics settings , if only they had onlive in the DOS era , think of all those hours wasted on making cfg and boot disks!
Not bad lets stress test onlive and the Libretto a little , next I use onlive to mess around in the Arena and play a game in the top touch screen whilst browsing my blog in Internet explorer 9 on the second lower screen : Could you do this on your desktop without windows closing and minimizing or locking ?
I fail miserably at Ninja Blade on the top screen , I am playing with a simple wireless keyboard and mouse ensemble .. should have stuck to the 360 pad!
ok stress test over how about a little sojourn in tropical Panau
Avalanche's Just Cause 2 is just one of the finest games you can play , now in the fine palms of your hands: smile , the Hestonator would be impressed by my use of tablets!
Time to Red your neck a little in Borderlands
Now we jump to Assassin's Creed 2 , just click and play its magic , just think Brotherhood is on its way to the PC will it be first really big move for fans from Steam to onlive , quite possibly I do not really want to keep installing 22gb games !
Frontlines - I have had this game sooo long on retail and Steam , but thanks to onlive I am going to play and finish it ! woooah children its just a click away .....
Why so many tests and videos across 2 tablets and a desktop? well you got me I like games , and also because with a cloud based streamed game service ,you want to check how many actual dropouts and crashes occur , now did you see any? over the entire 3 day test ? onlive is real and works , you are probably more likely to see one of your traditionally installed pc games crash to the desktop than one you are playing onlive . And just think no drivers or patches to apply ever!
The ultimate console and games machine thanks to onlive is NOW COMPLETELY HARDWARE INDEPENDENT , you want to play the most complex PC games , instantly you can ,fed up with buying Steam games one at time , you can pay a subscription fee and never have to torture yourself with another week , weekend , or mid week sale decision again , it has taken time but in the short space of a year gamers are set to embrace the Cloud , and services like onlive are showing the way . If you do not have the broadband to run it , lobby your government and demand it, and in all likelihood if you are at all serious about games you will already have the Broadband speed required , now you can free it from downloading and switch to streaming instead!
You will have heard a lot about revolutionary hardware at this years CES , there are all the usual suspects with new consoles , gpus , tablets and cpus , that have you locked into that constant cycle of upgrading . Well onlive is your liberator , it is the most revolutionary thing to happen in the history of video games .
There is no way to emphasize greatly enough the changes that the Cloud will bring a service like onlive is only a herald of what is to come . A time where software publishers are the power and hardware , whether pc mac sony Nintendo or Microsoft is irrelevant .
This is why I believe that the next Playstation , the next Xbox , the next Nintendo , or the mighty fabled Apple gaming machine , may not be based on hardware at all , just a very fast broadband connection to streaming game servers , where we subscribe , I ranted about this here long ago . Sound like science fiction ?well , the tech is already here with onlive as you can see has been keeping me occupied over the last week .
Years from now , whilst toasting marshmallows and radroaches round the campfire you will sing songs and tell tales remembering you were present at the death of traditional video gaming and the coming of the Cloud People ..who liberated your video gaming tribe with their magical onlive and also happened to save the rain forests in the process.
Viva Onlive ! embrace the People of the Cloud!
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