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Notebooks.com CES 2008 Archive
Alienware Area 51 m15x announced (video)
Chris from Alienware showed me the new Area 51 m15x gaming and multimedia notebook. It’s the only 15.4-inch notebook with Intel Core 2 Extreme processor and NVIDIA 8800M GTX graphics card. The Area 51 m15x has a media bay that can handle a second hard drive, for up to 640GB of storage. There’s an optional Blu-ray drive if you want to enjoy movies at full 1080p goodness.
Seagate D.A.V.E. Wireless External Storage for Mobile Devices
Seagate showed off D.A.V.E. (Digital Audio Video Experience) at CES 2008. The wireless hard drive can add 60GB of storage to a mobile phone, notebook or TV. should see products based on this platform by the end of this year.
Mophie Knox Aluminum Case for iPod Nanos (video)
Mophie showed off its latest iPod case at CES 2008. The Knox is an aluminum case that doubles as a wallet and keeps your iPod Nano safe from the perils of the world. Mophie always seems to have the most iPod accessories that stand out from the crowd and the Knox is no exception.
Bill Gates Last Day at Microsoft (video)
What do you do after spending three decades building one of the biggest tech companies in the world and earning billions? Bill Gates and company showed a brief film during his CES keynote that shows how he spent his last full day at Microsoft and his quest for a new gig.
Seagate Intros Maxtor BlackArmor, First External Drive with Full Disk Encryption
Seagate introduced the Maxtor BlackArmor external hard drive, which is the world’s first external drive with full disk encryption. Seagate claims it can take up to 30 years to crack the encryption, depending on the strength of your password.
Sony mylo COM-2 Introduced. BIG Impovement, but Who’s Buying? (video)
The mylo COM 2 boasts a 3.5-inch touchscreen LCD (800 x 480 pixels), 1GB of flash memory and integrated camera. The mylo COM 2 has a several chat clients and can be customized with widgets. For $299 you get what Sony calls ‘all the fun parts of computer’ in a compact form factor.
Fireproof, Waterproof Hard Drive from Sentry and Maxtor
Simple backing up your data isn’t enough if your home catches fire or is flooded. Sentry teamed up with Maxtor to develop a hard drive that’s fireproof and waterproof. Sentry’s also selling a safe that has a USB cable that runs through the door so you can connect your USB drives and keep them connected to your PC.
Pro Photogs Use OQO Model 2 to Edit, File High Res Images Remotely
The OQO Model 2 is a petite handheld, and at first glance you wouldn’t want to use it to edit high-res photos. But it looks like a good number of professional photographers are using them to do just that.
Wireless USB Demo (video)
Here’s a demo of Wireless USB from Staccato Communications. In this demo, a photo is taken of me and it instantly appears on a Dell notebook, equipped with Wireless USB. It is then sent to a printer wireless and just a few seconds after my photo is snapped I have a print.
Bloggers Sure Love Their MacBooks
I’m at the blogger’s lounge in CES, along with bloggers from some of the best known gadget sites.There are about 18 bloggers blogging right now and the only guy on a PC is Wille from Feber.se , but he says he’s switching to a Mac when Apple comes out with an ultraportable.