It's about to kickoff tomorrow with the Steve Ballmer keynote but already companies are announcing their wares early in an attempt to not get lost in the chaos. But when they all do it early then it just makes CES seem longer than it really is.

We will have our own AZ reporter live on the show floor bringing us the latest in cutting edge technology.

 

iPhone 5?

 

is the ?

I think we'll get fair coverage of CES but complete, in-depth coverage of AEE.

 

and high resolution photos lol

 

He'll pass out at the porn convention and totally miss this.

 

So far there's been a slew of me too Android tablets all running 2.2 at best. The biggest tablet news should be when Motorola announces their Android tablet that runs 3.0 which was designed for tablets.

Also Intel announced their Core 2011 2nd Gen processors (aka Sandy Bridge). These chips are 32nm chips and have the CPU/GPU on the same die. This is different than the previous Core iX processors that had the CPU/GPU on the same package but not the same die, it makes a difference in performance and reduced power draw. Also these chips have a technology that's called Quick Sync which is insanely good at encoding video. Like much better than the best thing Nvidia can do with their CUDA GPU accelerated stuff. It's insanity....

Not to be out done AMD has finally released their Fusion APU chip which is a combination of CPU and GPU in one processor! Intel has two processors (CPU and GPU) on one die while AMD has taken the CPU and GPU and fused them into one brand new processor doing both. This is targeted at the Intel Atom processor and the AMD Fusion is supposed to kick the Atoms ass at performance (it can do DX 11!) and it's lower power.

 

Oh and with Sandy Bridge it seems we'll finally be switching to UEFI instead of BIOS. Intel and Windows have supported EFI for a few years but motherboard makers have really jumped on board until now. All of ASUS Sandy Bridge mobo's will be UEFI instead of BIOS!

 

Since this is a car forum......

OBD II to iPhone adapter!


http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/cartrip

 

That OBD II thing is pretty cool.

 

Definitely interested in that myself.

 

What's going on at the porn convention across the street?

 

will have news at 11.

 

Now it's not a real iPad 2 in there but I think the mockup is so well done that it's got to be what the iPad 2 looks like!











I just think it's too well designed to not be based on the actual dimensions of the next iPad. Now it really looks like a big iPod Touch

These also match the earlier iPad case that we saw which Apple had removed

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/04/i...mockup-ipad-2/

 

 

Porn and Computers - subscribed.

 

This will not go down as a landmark year for CES. Tablets will dominate the floor I'm glad I skipped going. I'll be at NAB this year, for me at least that's the show of all shows. :nerd:

 

This will be a monster year for Android Tablets.

 

Well, droid in general. Expect TVs to have the most functionality.

 

I think if I was on Apple's blessed list of case suppliers I wouldn't show up at CES with a mock up of an iPad2. I also wouldn't have those cases on display either. Steve is going to rain down pain on those guys and they won't be making cases for iPad3.

 

Kinda bummed with it...been playing with my friends google tv he got as a gift....its VERY slow and laggy. Not overly intuitive, a tad cluttered.

I hope they make it better...but then again I hope the apple TV takes off and gains more functionality...

 

I'm in the 'wait and see' category for everything. I refuse to buy any more generation 1 devices. This industry is jading me.

On the plus side we've been doing some work with REDs lately, fun.

 

Hope you guys found a good work flow...I am still not a RED fan. I am trying to get some day play on the new spiderman which is using the new EPIC cameras for 3D...and its all still beta hardware.

My friends brother works for the law team at google, so i think he got his whole family google tv for holiday gifts.

 

Haha that's too funny.

I just put together a decent DIT station I'm using at an event in a few weeks. We did RED work out in Seattle and I had the ONLY masters with me on the plane ride home. Scary.

Some of the red applications are buggy to me and we used REDDEAD alot to recover a file or two.

 

Vizio is suppose to have a 2560x1080 on display, 21;9.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/04/v...1080-resoluti/

 

After reading so many mixed reviews I've decided to wait for this technology to mature a bit more. Still many functionality issues and issues with internet TV providers (ex. hulu) allowing you to stream to your TV. Also netflix will only let you watch what is in your cue and not whatever you want on the TV. Seems like the cable companies are gonna have a fit and lots of "side-business" still needs to be worked out for this to go mainstream.

 

Plus since it's Vizio it'll prob be a bargain deal.

 

FIOS has already started to do flex ordering VOD, you can watch on TV, computer and cellphone.

 

So it starts Thursday...?

 

Today.

 

It keep looking at their website, has tomorrows date.

 

It's funny that the biggest news out of this show is covers for the iPad2.

 

You're right, it does. I think they are unofficially releasing products at this point.

It's odd because Engadget has news breaking today.

 

Like I said in the first post companies aren't waiting until CES officially starts to release their big announcements. Steve Ballmer's opening keynote is tonight.

There's a lot of rumors surrounding this keynote too. Windows 7 on ARM processors? Will they show off Windows 8? Announce new features for WP7? Windows 7 tablets or WP7 tablets which will it be!?!? New Xbox Kinect games? Standalone Windows Media Center box? That's the one I'm waiting for......

 

Yup, rumors were true. MS just confirmed Windows is adding ARM support in the next version and it'll work with SoCs (system on a chip) also. I'm curious to see what they'll do with this capability.....

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/m...s-will-play-n/

 

Here a Android 3.0 honeycomb preview

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So now Nvidia is making CPUs! Nvidia announced they're making an ARM processor CPU for the desktop. Launch I assume would coincide with windows 8 launch since it will be first desktop OS to provide ARM support.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/n...r-the-desktop/

 

Here's the Motorola XOOM Tablet.
10.1 16:10 display 1280x800
3g (upgradeable to 4g)
Dual Core Tegra 2 processor
Adobe Flash Support
32GB ROM
2mp front facing camera and 5mp rear, shoots 720P video.




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http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/m...ined-by-unann/

 

I believe this XOOM is coming to Verizon while Tmobile just announced 4G Honeycomb tablet made by LG. There's no pics or specs of the device so there's not much else to say.

 

Here's the link to the live stream of the CES Keynote if anyone wants to watch it. It should start any minute....

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/e...liveevent.aspx

 

Yes I'll be on the show floor i think Sunday. And at the AEE on Saturday

Probably won't be able to post on AZ since last year AT&T's 3G network was just way overloaded that it just didn't work. (edge barely worked thou)