Computex 2010
Anand Tuliani | 25 June 2010
| Computex 2010 The latest and greatest happenings.
By Anand Tuliani
Tablets, PCs and laptops running Windows 7 were showcased at the Microsoft
The Transcend Storejet 25M3 will be available in the market very soon. It's distinguishable from its predecessor with the green border of the rubber sleeving that makes it shock-proof.
Digital photo frames were all over the place. These models by Transcend feature a crisp 8-inch display, 2 GB of internal memory, automatic orientation sensor, card reader, USB port and built-in speakers.
Adata Superior SH93 — a rugged and waterproof portable external storage device with a funky design.
Some of the very first CF cards with SATA interface were showcased by Apacer. They feature a new CFast connector and provide transfer rates up to 3 Gb/s which is equivalent to that of desktop hard drives.
USB 3.0 flash drives are currently bulky because the controller is based on a two-chip design. We should see leaner models very soon.
Class 10 SDXC card pushes the capacity of SD cards even further. This stamp-size SDXC card by Silicon Power packs 64 GB of storage space—ideal for camcorders and digital cameras.
The Thecus D024 is a compact external drive casing that supports two SSDs or 2.5-inch hard drives and allows configuring them in RAID 0 or 1. It features USB 3.0 interface and comes with an add-on USB 3.0 card.
Yes, all of these are USB flash drives. Check out those funky designs!
The X-wing laptop cooling pad by GlacialTech offers a lot more than being just a cooler. It displays the temperature and fan speed and has touch-sensitive buttons for media player control
AMD's Fusion Family of processors called APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) will combine CPU, GPU and other acceleration units in a single power-efficient die.
2.5-inch hard drive enclosures with USB 3.0 interface are ready with some manufacturers. We should see some in our market very soon.
Demonstration of the SilverStone Raven RV03's airflow using a smoke machine. Instead of the lateral layout, this one features a vertical layout with the I/O panel on the top for better exhaust.
The Cooler Master Elite 430 is the newest addition to its Elite line-up of entry-level cabinets. This one is compact yet spacious enough to accommodate a large power supply and three hefty graphics cards.
Demonstration of fans that SilverStone uses in their high-end cabinets. The one of the left blows air over a large area and the other one concentrates air flow on a particular spot.
A 6-panel display using AMD's Eyefinity technology showcased at Gigabyte's booth.
Invest in this board if you want an insanely powerful gaming rig. It has seven PCIe slots that support 4-way CrossFire.
Gigabyte's demo room where they showcased motherboards running SSDs, USB 3.0 storage devices, hard drive casings, etc. with benchmarks.
The Asus Rampage III Extreme bundles a Bluetooth module. You can use the RC TweakIt application on the iPhone to tweak the frequencies and voltages on-the-fly wirelessly.
The 17-inch Asus G73JW is one mean gaming machine. It features the latest quad-core Core i7 mobile CPU, 16 GB of RAM, Seagate
The latest nettop by Asus called the EeeBox EB1501P features a dual-core Atom CPU, Nvidia ION chipset and USB 3.0 port. It also has a DVD-writer which most nettops lack.
The Asus Eee Tablet is an Ebook reader with an 8-inch display, built-in
Measuring less than an inch thick, the Asus EeeTop ET2010AGT is the world's slimmest all-in-one panel PC. It's powered by the AMD Athlon II X2 250u CPU, 2 GB DDR3 RAM and 500 GB hard drive.
MSI's custom-desgined GTX470, GTX480, GTX465 and Radeon HD 5850 with the massive TwinFrozr II cooler, factory-overclocked core, over-volting software, and lots of heatpipes.
The MSI Wind U250 is a 12.1-inch ultra portable laptop powered by the AMD Athlon X2 processor and HD 4225 integrated graphics processor.
These 19-inch all-in-one panel PCs by MSI are powered by the latest Intel Atom D525 CPU that runs at 1.8 GHz. Since they don't consume much power they're silent and environment friendly.
Playing racing games on this 3D Vision setup would be an awesome experience. Steering wheel with force feedback, manual gears, pedals for clutch, brakes and accelerator—just like a real life car.
The Zotac GTX 480 Amp! is a factory-overclocked card with a custom cooler that keeps the temperature of the card under 65 degrees at full load—a lot better than the stock cooler.
The Zotac Zbox HD-ID11 is a barebone PC that ships with the Intel Atom D510 CPU on the ION platform. Throw in a memory module and a hard drive of your choice and you have a PC ready.
ECS Elitegroup's stall was one of the most prominent stalls on the floor at Computex. They had showcased all-in-one PC, netbooks, nettops, laptops, motherboards, graphics cards, eBook readers and WiMAX devices among many other products they manufacture.
The ECS G10 Touch is a powerful all-in-one PC with a multi-touch panel meant for power users. It uses components of a desktop PC such as an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 3.5-inch hard drive and a discrete graphics card.
The ECS G10-3D is a 21.5-inch all-in-one PC with a lenticular 3D screen that doesn't require 3D glasses. Specially encoded videos and images are required for this type of screen.
The ECS Eliot EB-800 is an ebook reader with a massive 8-inch E-ink display with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels. It runs the Linux operating system and offers USB, Wi-fi, Bluetooth and WiMAX connectivity. The supported file formats include PDF, MS Office documents, JPG, OGG and FLAC.
The ECS Tablet PC A102 is as powerful as a netbook. It features a 10.1-inch resistive touchscreen and is powered by an Intel Atom N450 CPU and 1 GB RAM. The 2-cell battery offers 4 hours of battery life and it weighs just 800 grams.
GTX 480, GTX 470, custom-designed GTS 250 and GT 240, and more by ECS. That's one big line-up!
Despite its rugged build the ECS E10IS is an Intel Classmate PC sports a slim design. It's powered by the Intel Atom N450 CPU and 1 GB RAM and features a 10.1-inch display. HDD protection and mobile broadband support are optional.
The ECS Net Box i.MX51 is as large as a desktop PC's optical drive. Running a 800 MHz Freescale processor with 512 MB of RAM and flash storge it's an ideal device for cloud computing. The I/O panel features a card reader, USB ports and audio jacks.
The ECS P55H-AK is the top-end P55 motherboard from with ECS' Deep Green technology. This mean-looking motherboard features 3-way SLI support, Creative X-Fi audio, dual gigabit Ethernet ports and USB 3.0 ports.
Getting ready to overclock the Intel Core i5-655K on the ECS P55H-AK motherboard. The overclocker said it can go as high as 5 GHz on air cooling with a high-end cooler.
The P67H2-A from ECS' Black Series is built for Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge CPUs that will use the new socket LGA 1155. The chipset supports SATA 3 Gb/s natively but USB 3.0 support is still via a discrete controller.
ECS demonstrating their Deep Green technology for motherboards. When in soft off (S5) mode the motherboard consumes less than 0.001 of power.
The ECS H67H2-M is meant for Sandy Bridge CPUs with on-chip graphics. The difference between P67 and H67 chipsets is that the former features dual-x8 CrossFire support and the latter supports only a single PCIe x16 slot.
The Intel Q67 chipset is designed for business machines. It supports 14 USB ports, Intel vPro capability for remote administration and option for adding a TPM module for data encryption.
– anand.tuliani@chip.in
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