One of the oft passed by booths at CES was held down by Alcatel-Lucent, a purveyor of equipment sold primarily to telecom companies and cable providers. They were however showing off a conceptual technology that demonstrates some interesting ways to utilize all that sweet, sweet bandwidth provided by new “4G” phone technologies, specifically LTE.
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TODAY WE’RE TAKING a look at two mATX H67 chipset motherboards in the $100 price range, namely the Gigabyte H67M-UD2H and the Intel DH67BL. We tested both boards with the Core i5 2500K processor as that is what we had at hand, but there’s no reason to buy a K series processor for an H67 board, as you can’t overclock the CPU when paired with the H67 chipset.
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EYE-FI MAY NOT have new cards to show off, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t showing off worthwhile new features. At CES, they added background dumping to the cloud via cell phones, amazingly handy if done right.
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INTEL’S NEXT HIGH-END consumer platform has so far been a topic for much discussion on the interwebs as Intel hasn’t uttered a word so far as to what we can expect. However, thanks to a Chinese website and some blurred out pictures of an upcoming MSI motherboard, it’s not clear that Intel will be offering the LGA-2011 platform as a replacement for the current LGA-1366 platform.
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A FEW MORE tidbits about Sandisk and their single chip SATA SSD, plus another toy. Nothing major, just fleshing out their lineup.
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Motorola has demoed some really cool android-based products at CES this year; from the Honeycomb packing, Tegra2 powered Xoom tablet, to their potentially game changing Atrix phoneputer. These products largely gloss over the turd they call the HS1001 cordless home phone, but it looked out of place enough that we had to stop by and stare at the train wreck.
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Nestled in a dimly lit corner of the AMD suite was a start-up company called Nuvixa. While much of the suite’s floor space was dedicated to pimping out fusion-based laptops and 6000 series video cards, Nuvixa was showing off some tech that can actually put all that compute goodness to practical use. Enter the presenter.
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It’s hard to believe that OnLive launched a little over 6 months ago in June of 2010. Well they are still around, and have launched a few new products along the way including an announcement that they have partnered with Vizio to include their software inside of certain newly released “VIA Plus” series TV sets. We stopped by their booth to see how the second half of 2010 treated them, and what they are focusing on going forward.
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GIGABYTE HAS TWO more boards in their G1.Killer line, both below the G1.Assassin. They are called the G1.Sniper and the G1.Guerilla.
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SPOTTING ODD HARDWARE is not unusual at product launches and trade shows, but for what it’s worth, we spotted a motherboard at Intel’s Sandy Bridge launch event in Taiwan that we can’t quite figure out what it is. At first it looks like a mATX P67 board, but once you start to look closer at it, you notice that it has an HDMI port around the back.
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AMD IS SHOWING how to do wireless displays right, unlike the broken WiDi from Intel. ViVu, software from a company with the same name, seems to have none of the badly broken bits of WiDi, and a lot more benefits.
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Victorinox had an impressive spread of pocket knives on display, nearly all of them containing one or more flash memory sticks of some sort. The Belle of the Ball however had to be the unreleased “Presentation Master” knife/biometric protected flash drive/Bluetooth Power Point slide advancer/laser pointer/nail file/screw driver/scissors/owner of my heart.
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File this one in the WTF folder. Toshiba managed to pique our interest with an ingenious, yet slightly crazy/useless display gimmick. An SSD board was mounted inside of a fish bowl, mostly submerged in ordinary water (made slightly alcoholic once everyone’s back was turned,) and was booted from on a computer next to the tank. Utterly useless? Yes. Attention getting? Yes. Can you do this at home? Yes (just don’t send us the repair bill.)
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WE’VE ALREADY SHOWN you Sapphire’s mini-ITX Brazos board and no-one was overly surprised at seeing this motherboard, especially as Sapphire is a long term AMD partner. However, what we have for you today is an exclusive look at a not quite final P67 chipset motherboard from Sapphire, a product that many didn’t expect to launch.
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Lock maker and home security outfit Yale have unleashed their newest creation on the unsuspecting home automation masses. Deadbolt door locks with multi-touch gesture input, and internet connectivity so you can lock your kid in his room from anywhere in the world.
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