CES 2010: AMD and Lenovo introduced ultra thin business laptop for less than $500
During our visit to AMD meeting room, an interesting things was a wall with notebooks from different manufacturers with Vision logo on them. Two of them where very interesting, first one from ASUS, as we wrote earlier, now it is confirmed, newest member of RoG family will use 5870 mobility. More details regarding this one you can find in ASUS report. Second one was newest member of Lenovo ThinkPad family – ThinkPad X100e, the company’s first professional-grade ultraportable laptop starting below $500. The X100e also represents the first time Lenovo and AMD have collaborated to offer AMD processors on ThinkPad laptops and to leverage AMD’s VisionPro branding.
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CES 2010: Gaming laptop, Bang & Olufsen for music listening & Karim Rashid for fashion ...
If the trend continues, we will probably start to celebrate New Year at CES. Official start is on January 7th, but it is common that several companies will start with press conference a day before. Well, Asus beat them all, and scheduled press conference two days before. Luckily, products shown at the conference were worth of effort. As expected most of the products where from ASUS mobile products range.
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CES 2010: Wireless speakers finally have sense
We were always wandering ourselves if wireless speakers are properly named as they still need a wire to power cord. Ones that comes whit batteries are probably step in right direction, but not very user friendly due frequent battery replacements. This time Klipsch has done the right thing, simple and innovative, they presented LightSpeaker, and as name hints they combine speaker and light bulb.
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CES 2010: LaCie Unveils New USB "Keys" with Online Storage and USB 3.0 external HDD
LaCie announced the LaCie CooKey and LaCie WhizKey, both design by 5.5 Designers. The new USB flash keys are modeled after the LaCie iamaKey. The LaCie CooKey and LaCie WhizKey are built with sturdy metal, making the surfaces tough and dependable. Additionally, the Gold SIP connectors on the USB keys are both water- and scratch- resistant, making them some of the thinnest and most durable flash drive choices on the market.
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New Biostar H55 series
Yesterday, Intel officially announced its new generation 32nm Clarkdale processor with integrated graphic engine built in, pair up with H55 chipset. Biostar has released 3 models based on Intel H55 chipset, including TH55 XE, TH55 HD and TH55B HD. With the success of it's P55 series, Biostar H55 series also adopt several unique features, such as Dura-Max technology with rich multimedia IO interface. Biostar famous T-series, TH55 XE offers m-ATX form factor, a stylish black PCB, supports Intel 32nm Clarkdale Core i5/i3/Pentium 45/32nm series processors. All solid state power capacitors, 7 phase CPU power supply, new generation of energy-saving “Dura Max” technology, accurate circuit design, and Japan made PSE capacitor that ensures product durability and stability.
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Sanyo Intros "World's Smallest" Dual-Camcorder
Today at CES, Sanyo showed of the Xacti, VPC-CS1, a little dual camcorder that it claims is smallest, thinnest, and lightest. This little camera is 1.06 inches thick and weighs roughly five ounces. It shoots video in full 1080p HD and takes stills. The VPC-CS1 is due out in February of this year. At $299.99, it's a bit pricier than the Flip an its ilk, but with features like 10x optical zoom, its certainly feels like a step up.
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Samsung shows super-slim 3D LED TVs
Samsung showed off a new LED HDTV series, comprised of the LED9000, LED8000 and LED7000. The 9000 is the flagship and, at just 0.3 inches thick, or about the width of a pencil, is the slimmest LED TV made to date, Samsung says. Part of what the company is calling the widest 3D TV product range offering, all three are compatible with the Blu-ray 3D standard. This flagship TV is the headline-grabber and ships with a full touchscreen remote control that will let users watch TV on the remote itself while a Blu-ray movie is playing on the TV screen.
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AMD reveals Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series
AMD launched the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000. The new graphics core is the first to support DirectX 11 and the equivalent OpenGL 3.2 visual effects, and on most models can also handle DirectCompute and OpenCL general computing. It should also be AMD's most performance-per-watt most efficient chipset as it can push over a teraflop per second in the fastest models but, through the new design and a smaller 40nm process, consumes much less power at the same time.
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Toshiba shows off Cell-powered HDTV
Toshiba showed off their ZX900 Cell TV at CES 2010, using the Cell processing engine found in the powerful PlayStation 3. The player will come as either 46-inch, 55-inch or 65-inch models and the company says each will include a 3.2GHz Cell chip with eight cores. Each core will upscale SD content into 1080p HD content using smart pixel generation that Toshiba says will leave upscaled images almost indistinguishable from Blu-ray and other legitimate HD content. The same technology will reduce noise and remove artifacts, all on the fly.
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Winter Idyll: Sapphire Radeon HD 5780 Vapor-X
We met the strongest AMD's single-GPU graphics card several months ago, when it successfully beated the two-headed behemoth of the previous generation. Raw speed is not the only trump of Radeon 5870 - there is support for the new DirectX, the ability of render 3D graphics on multiple monitors in combined, super-high resolution (ATI Eyefinity), and drastically reduced consumption in idle mode, which makes this card practically negligible load for power supply, considering all day computing.
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