Monday, January 07, 2008

This Video Makes Bill Gates Look Cooler Than Steve Jobs [Bill]

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OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already. Here's a video from last night's CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates' last for the foreseeable future. And I know its scripted, edited and contrived, but I'm sold: The man is a cool geek. He's not cool in a fonzie/Jobs kind of way in this video. But very much like how he seemed at total ease with his geekiness and place in the universe at Mossberg and Swisher's All Things D conference the guy just looks happy here. (Especially while playing goofy and modest butt of the joke with this short's star studded cast.) He seems nothing like the anti-antitrust mogul with a killer instinct and "bad taste" we learned to hate in Pirates of Silicon Valley. Fanboys, get to your comment battle stations. Just leave me out of it -- I only wrote the headline.

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Alienware curved display rocks Crysis at 2880 x 900

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Don't get all frothed up quite yet because it's still only a prototype, but this sweet doublewide curved DLP display with OLED illumination from Alienware will reportedly be available in the second half of '08. The curvature of the 2880 x 900 rez screen mimics peripheral vision, and in action the performance seemed pretty flawless to our Crysis-dazzled eyes (official specs report less than .02-millisecond response time). We did notice three faint vertical dividing lines that appeared to indicate four sub-panels making up this screen, but we may be willing to suspend disbelief in exchange for the potential of indulgent wrap-around immersion. There's not even an inkling of an MSRP on this thing yet, but you know we're gonna be keeping our eyes on this sucker for ya. Pics below and don't miss our video footage.

 

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Hands-on with Intel's MID platform

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Get your Silverthorn, red hot 45-nm dual-core "Silverthorn" processor and "Poulsbo" chipsets here. For some reason, we love to look at these future Menlow-based MID devices even though we've yet to find a home for the UMPC in our cold, jaded hearts. And that shiny bar above? Don't get your hopes up kiddo. It's that same slab of non-functional (but sexy) backlit plastic we've seen before and destined for delivery sometime in the next century.

 

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LG has mystery HSDPA QWERTY device at CES

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What the? Looks like LG is entering the ultra-portable, bastardized-UMPC / MID game this week at CES. When it pops, we'll be looking at a 4.8-inch touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, 40GB disk, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, and sliding QWERTY all wrapped around Intel's Menlow platform. The OS, price, and lots of other useful information is still missing.

 

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Tiny Intel flash drive hits 16GB

Intel's new solid state drive, the Z-P140, comes in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB sizes

CES 2008: Z-P140 SSD ideal for phones, handhelds

Dean Evans
06 Jan 2008 13:41 GMT

At this year's CES, Intel is all about mobility. Intel's 45nm Penryn CPUs will be fuelling the latest desktops and laptops, while its Ultra Mobile Platform chips will be powering UMPCs, UMDs and MIDs.

Alongside its processor technology, Intel has also officially announced its new Z-P140 PATA solid state drive (SSD). We've written about the Z-P140 before, but here's the first picture of it. As you can see, it's about the size of a US penny and uses Intel's SD54B and SD58B NAND flash memory chips for storage.

Intel says that the Z-P140 weighs 0.6g (lighter than the average water droplet, apparently) and is 400 times smaller than a traditional 1.8-inch HDD. And, of course, there are no moving parts.

The Z-P140 is capable of read speeds of 40MB/s and write speeds of 30MB/s. Ideal for smartphones (and the anticipated flood of mobile internet devices in 2008), Intel's SD54B and SD58B NAND chips can be combined into 2GB, 4GB, 8GB or 16GB versions.

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