Comments on: Will server-side computing turn our netbooks into gaming machines?

By: Colette Spears

Colette Spears — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:30:43 +0000

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By: Ashton

Ashton — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:32:02 +0000

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By: Heartburn Home Remedy

Heartburn Home Remedy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:06:22 +0000

I can tell that this is not the first time at all that you mention this topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?

By: Bill Walker

Bill Walker — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:42:53 +0000

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By: Vitor Pepicon

Vitor Pepicon — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:21:07 +0000

Why not? Everything evolves.

By: Gareth Whiteside

Gareth Whiteside — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:26:57 +0000

Will server-side computing turn our netbooks into gaming machines? http://v3.nu/USHAN/

By: Walle

Walle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:03:06 +0000

The idea is great, especially for applications in general – for FPS-gaming though it will not work, unless they have some new really really great low latency streamed non-frame-based compression algorithm. Once again – try streaming anything using any codec through any open source solution such as VLC.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:16:11 +0000

*prays for future when COD multiplayer can be played with just an Aigo MID and an HSPA connection*

By: Wanze

Wanze — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:51:08 +0000

If someome discovers a way to send information in no time and not lightspeed at max, then i buy their story, and maybe the perpedo-mobile thing …. since then relax an laugh.

By: Mads Tejlgaard

Mads Tejlgaard — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:46:38 +0000

I’m affectionate about both UMPC’s and gaming, and I believe a lot of gamers probably are too.

It’s not that I necessarily want to game while I’m on the go, but sometimes I do, and for that reason I have a nintendo DS, in spite of being a grown man.

A UMPC wouldn’t be my first, second, or even third system either. Of course, I’m not a typical user, and I can appreciate that, but my point is that the demographics are overlapping…and hardcore gamers with big gaming rigs do not necessarily have the expertise to rig a remote wake on lan setup to turn on their home computers while they’re on the go and activate their gaming remotely…

No, this is very interesting, I think…but why stop at gaming though?

I have to think that streaming of many other applications could be prefferable to storing them locally. Remote video transcoding comes to mind, but I’m sure there are others….combine it with a pay-as-you-go service and there could be a real benefit to it…

By: John

John — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:32:22 +0000

If the service is very light on the client side (ie. does the heavy computational work on the servers, and only does display/user-input on the netbook), then I bet it could work (pretty much what I said on Engadget yesterday). But, if not, then I think netbooks and MIDs might be underpowered. UMPC’s, which in my observation tend to have better-than-Atom CPUs, might do fine, though.

My other reservation is that, as you know, I don’t run Windows, anywhere. This service is projected to support Mac and Windows, but no announced support for Linux. Mac is great for me, I can run it on my desktops. But … since there isn’t a Mac netbook/MID/UMPC, that runs the desktop version of OS X, and since they haven’t announced Linux support … I think that leaves me out in the cold wrt to running this service on a netbook, MID, or UMPC.

By: Walle

Walle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:15:47 +0000

The conclusion would be that if anyone wants to play demanding games, I believe that the netbooks will hold good enough mobile GPU for that purpose before anyone manage to implement a low bandwitdh, zero latency game streaming solution, but hopefully onlive will prove me wrong.

By: Walle

Walle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:13:04 +0000

As mentioned, the idea is not new. Ever since VLC supported screen streaming I used it together with Synergy to do that thing the freeware way. The problem however is latency – I have a powerful gaming htpc at om on a 10/10Mbit connection. The added sum of encoding, transmitting and decoding h264 to a 7Mbit cell-modem adds up to about 250ms which makes any fps unplayable. There are streaming solutions mentioned as “zero-latency” but so far I’ve not seen any good enough used for gaming.

By: EC

EC — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:42:29 +0000

I have a feeling though that people into Netbooks, aren’t very largely gamers, they really don’t fit the specs of a gaming machine

By: Ben Lang

Ben Lang — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:55:40 +0000

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