nighttime before last was the one-year CES Unveiled , a press - only party where journalists got a preview of the best of the approaching product featured in the show as well as the success of the Innovations 2005 . The room was a bit minor , but there were plenty of interesting find , if you could compress past the huge crowd .
AMDwas designate off the latest laptop computer power by their AMD Mobile Athlon 64 Processor . They had a shrill Actius AL27 execute the AMD 64 2700 + , with a 15″ XGA screen , and a 60 GB hard campaign , Dual Format DVDRW , USB 2.0 ports and Firewire , and hecka other stuff , all in a small laptop that weighs just 6.5lbs . It search a lot like an Apple iBook , which is probably why the booth babes liked it the near out of the bunch .
For the guy rope , they displayed the latest Ferrari notebook computer by Acer , also feature the AMD 64 . Race - inspired , it features the sleek carbon copy character look and same crimson paint and badge feature on the cool cable car brand we ’ll all never get to drive .
Nice to see these 64 - bit processors hitting the marketplace , but it ’ll be gracious once Microsoft starts ship the 64 - bit version of their Windows atomic number 76 to take advantage of all the special king .
Top PC Gamer Johnathan ‘ Fatal1ty ’ Wendel teamed up with ABIT Computer Corp. to plan his own line of gaming hardware . I was skeptical of the idea about teaming up a gamer and a motherboard manufacturer and asked him how much input he actually had over the engineers in design his own business . Turns out Johnathan is n’t into just sticking his name on a production . He was very down to globe and said ABIT wing him out to Taiwan , where he take on with the engineer , await at their initial ideas , killed a few of their ‘ mistake ’ and even bring some affair that they had n’t thought of .
At $ 250 retail , these control board are n’t the cheapest , but they certainly bring home the bacon a lot of belt for the vaulting horse , even if you ’re not a professional gamer . He suggested lose the on - control panel strait , choosing to go with an included professional phone card because he felt on - board audio suffers from feedback and poor tone audio that off - board sound cards lick . He also suggested dual Gb LAN ports on the plank , as well as extra on - board fans and some middling neat chill innovation . Already the easy over - clockable Intel motherboard , I ca n’t wait to see what he does with the next generation ABIT boards coming out later on this year . With the built - in LEDs ( to placate the modding crowd ) , it seemed a flake bling bling - bling for me , but with solid carrying out and anathemize effective looks , it ’s definately something to look at if you ’re planning a PC build .
A pretty cool estimate for dog lovers is theGlobalPetFinder , a GPS locating neckband for fido . Last year , I encounter one of these for kids , but this seems like the good utilization of the thought . The collar is water resistant , and do work in North America and Europe . You set a boundary area that they can rove within and if they escape that boundary , the gadget alerts you and sends constant alerts to a two - way wireless gadget of your alternative ( microcomputer , Cellphone , PDA , etc . ) . It ’s a very cool idea . At $ 13 / month , it ’s not cheap , but very deserving it for people who have ever lost a pet before .
Probably the cockamamy thing we saw was theHotSeat Solo , a self - proclaimed gaming ‘ chassis ’ that appear like Frankenstein adjudicate to give together a gaming lounge chair from PVC organ pipe ( but it ’s really made of steel ) , a Recarro racing behind , and some 5.1 surround sound verbaliser . At $ 399 , I intend it ’s mode over - priced and under - engineered . Putting a ‘ babe ’ in a two-piece pretending to play videogames while sitting in it does n’t on the button convince me that it ’s comfortable , but then again , that ’s my ruling .
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