Techgage @ CES 2009

[Rob Williams]

Whoa... is it that time of year already? It feels like we just left the previous CES, but lo and behold, it's here again. The reason it likely feels so fresh in our minds, well, me at least, is that it's easily one of the most exhaustive shows on the planet. This is why we don't usually stress over having too much content during the show, but wait to unload most of it afterwards. It's tiring, but man, is it good exercise!

As always though, this is sure to be quite an interesting CES, with lots of cool new products unveiled. To be honest, I'm not really sure what we're going to see unleashed on the enthusiast side, except perhaps for AMD's Phenom II and NVIDIA's GTX 295. Though I could be wrong, I don't believe there are any new processors from Intel to be unveiled, or chipsets from anyone. Graphics cards should only be coming from NVIDIA, unless ATI has something up their sleeves. I'm sure we'll have nothing to worry about though... there's sure to be some good stuff unveiled during the week.

So, what are you guys looking forward to hearing about at CES? As I mentioned, we don't usually focus too much on content during the show, but we'll be sure to report on what's important, and if you have any ideas, we're definitely up for hearing them. We'll also use this as our official thread during the show, featuring quick updates if we don't have time to post something more robust to the main site.

Discuss!

 

[Merlin]

would imagine that there would be something new in the photon recording area.
I think it's up to 12 or 14 mega pixels so far. I'dlike to be blown away at something new.
And it seems the cell phone industry is rapidly expanding, so there would be something there as well.
Maybe a jPhone ??
At any rate, emerging technology will be my interest. ( Nanotechnologies )
Most likely LG will have something new...look for it.
Merlin

 

[Kougar]

From what I've been seeing Intel will be offering a speed bump on their Nehalem parts either this quarter or more likely the next quarter... They published one roadmap showing a Bloomfield part " >3.2Ghz " around Q2 of last year due to arrive Q2 this year.

Honestly I'm not excited yet about CES... X58 boards and Nehalem are already here and both of them are way to new to be superseded yet... Intel's SSD's are king and nothing will change with those either, and a SSD optimized OS won't be here until much later this year... 55nm GPUs are here and don't really make any difference consumer-side for NVIDIA cards...

Not to be a sourpuss but I don't know of anything to get excited about that isn't already on the market, I'd be more happy seeing price cuts on certain hardware that's already out.

 

[Rob Williams]

ASUS has a lot going on this year, but that's not much of a surprise. LOTS of Eee PC stuff, including a new netbook that converts to a table, and also an Eee Top... a desktop PC with monitor built-in. The monitor also doubles as a touch-screen, so no mouse required. "Multi-touch" is something that ASUS is pushing big time. They want more and more netbooks to use touch-screens, and they are pushing full-throttle for this to happen.

Future M50 notebook has a touchpad that doubles as a screen. It will be its own computer, but will allow video watching and photo viewing on the main display. It's goal is to allow computer functionality without a full-blown OS.

ASUS and Microsoft are "deeply-partnered" to optimize Windows 7 on ASUS computers. An example showed Windows 7 running on an Eee PC with 1GB of RAM, and it ran quite well. The future looks good in this regard. No more being forced to XP for slower PCs.

Eee Keyboard... a media PC BUILT INTO A KEYBOARD. You can connect to the TV or display via wireless HDMI, and the keyboard itself features a 5" touchpad/touchscreen. The keyboard also will feature a LAN port, wireless b/g/n and speaker/mic.

We'll report more on this later... when we have time to prepare an actual article around things. Very interesting stuff from ASUS.

 

[Krazy K]

would imagine that there would be something new in the photon recording area.
I think it's up to 12 or 14 mega pixels so far. I'dlike to be blown away at something new.
And it seems the cell phone industry is rapidly expanding, so there would be something there as well.
Maybe a jPhone ??
At any rate, emerging technology will be my interest. ( Nanotechnologies )
Most likely LG will have something new...look for it.
Merlin

I think they have to make a kPhone before they can make the jPhone.

 

[Merlin]

I think they have to make a kPhone before they can make the jPhone.

Well,... That would be Krazy eh?

 

[Rob Williams]

We'll be posting more soon... just been swamped the past couple of days with work, so sorry for the delays folks.