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NL: Review Block - CES 2013 Consumer Electronics Wrap Up
Published: Monday, January 14, 2013 | By: DennisCES is over but there is still plenty to ready about and photos to see.
- CES 2013: The Booth Babes @ ThinkComputers
- Bjorn3D CES 2013 Coverage
- CES 2013: CyberPower @ ThinkComputers
- Micron and Crucial Unveil M500 Series SSD, DDR4 Ballistix Memory Kit @ HotHardware (not located in Meridian)
- EVGA preps first Mini-ITX enclosure
- Intel Preview’s Haswell’s GT-3 @ CES Bjorn3D
- Micron and Crucial introduce next-gen M500 SSD @ TR
- Nvidia's Project Shield handheld caught on video
- CES 2013 Coverage Round-up @ Techgage
- CES 2013 Day 1 Coverage Posted At Legit Reviews
- Gigabyte Touts Tablets, Notebooks and All-in-Ones At CES 2013 @ HotHardware
- Xi3 Making Valve’s Fabled Steam Box? That’s News to Valve, It Turns Out @ HotHardware
- ASUS E2KM1I-Deluxe, ARES II Graphics Card, & RAIDR Express PCIe SSD @ Legit ReviewsI still have a few galleries to post and am just now finishing up the final photos. Look for them soon.
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Back from CES, News will resume after these messages
Published: Monday, January 14, 2013 | By: DennisThese days when your SEO URL is comprised of the articles title you have to be careful what you say since the most logical title is not likely what will get any traffic.
For instance, at the Detroit Auto Show they unveiled the new C7 Corvette Stingray which looks amazing and appears to be a cross between a Ferrari, a Dodge Viper and Nissan Skyline but is all Chevy and something anyone will want to buy.
I mean it looks good, but will anyone see my news because I say the New Corvette is awesome? We shall see.
Along a different path did you hear about how c|net had to recast its vote for the best product of CES?? It would seem that while the Dish Hopper clearly won the top prize the c|net crew had to change their vote to exclude the Hopper from winning due to an ongoing lawsuit over the commercial skipping option. (which is great by the way)
HWBot has also posted an interview with Roman 'Der8auer' Hartung the famed builder of the CPU container I use when LN2 overclocking. The interview is pretty good I would suggest you all check it out.
More news after the break, I'm still recovering from CES and deciding if I should post more CES coverage or roll the content into something "better"
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Ninjalane Podcast Delayed
Published: Thursday, January 10, 2013 | By: DennisIn case some of you are wondering "Where is my Podcast?" It was decided to record the show after CES. At least then Darren and I could talk about some of the cool stuff at the show and at least make the podcast relevent to the time period.
I cannot say when the show will go live but the plan is for sometime next week with a normal launch of the "raw and uncut" Podcast Extras.
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NL: CES 2013 Block - Everyone is on a Mission
Published: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 | By: DennisHere is a wrap up of CES coverage from some of the other hardware sites. Most seem to be doing the individual article approach.
Ninjalane
CES Dialog 2013 - Day 2 The First Official Day
CES Dialog 2013 - Day 1 The Calm Before the StormTech Report
Ivy Bridge, 8000-series Radeons team up in new Samsung notebooks
Slim Thermaltake Nic CPU cooler steers clear of DIMM slots
IR sensors, Xbox-style buttons infiltrate Thermaltake mice
Asus shows super-wide, 144Hz displays
New ROG graphics card has dual GPUs, liquid cooling
Gigabyte boards use Thunderbolt ports to drive 4K display resolutions
Intel reveals 7W Ivy Bridge CPUs, convertible Haswell ultrabook
Nvidia shows new Tegra chip, cloud gaming, handheld console
Gigabyte Thin Mini-ITX mobos coming this monthThinkComputers
CES 2013: Logitech @ ThinkComputers
CES 2013: Thermaltake @ ThinkComputersThere will be more CES news eventually including my very own coverage
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Corsair Obsidian 900D - CES 2013 Announcement
Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | By: DennisOne of the problems associated with owning enthusiast grade hardware is that sometimes, just sometimes, the gear doesn't fit into a standard chassis. Case in point, the SR series boards from EVGA.
It is true, there are cases on the market that support those monster motherboards but nothing quite like the Corsair Obsidian Series 900D.
The case supports up to 15 hard drives, HPTX motherboards, Dual Power Supplies, 10 expansion slots, 15 fan locations including a quad fan radiator at the bottom and five other radiator mounting locations around case.
Needless to say this case is a little overkill, much like the hardware we intended to put in there.
In terms of size, the Obsidian 900D is a big one and the photo above is proper when it comes to scale. Check out the product landing page for more info and a few more product shots
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CES 2013: AMD unveils new GPUs, APUs and SoCs
Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | By: DennisGotta love CES news out of Taiwan.
AMD has launched the Radeon HD 8000M series of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs) set to deliver discrete graphics performance to a variety of notebook designs, including the portable ultrathin form factor. The AMD Radeon HD 8000M series are the first notebook GPUs to be offered with AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, which delivers compute power and performance while stretching battery life through AMD Enduro Technology, according to the vendor. Designs are currently shipping with Asustek Computer and Samsung, with Lenovo and additional OEMs shipping soon.
Additionally, AMD announced the availability of AMD Radeon HD 8000 series desktop graphics, available only through OEMs. The AMD Radeon HD 8000 series features GCN Architecture with support for DirectX 11.1 for acceleration of Windows 8 platforms, AMD App Acceleration to enhance GPU performance, and features intelligent power management technology such as AMD PowerTune with boost.8000 series graphics FTW!! Lets hope they are a little better than last time.
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The Calm Before the CES Storm 2013
Published: Monday, January 7, 2013 | By: DennisI had the opportunity to troll around some of the Mfg suites this morning and discovered three things from three companies.
1) Thermaltake still has it when it comes to "always" having something to show, even if they are prototypes secured by super glue.
2) Be Quiet is going to start selling their coolers in the US and they are worried about how much noise they will make. (Just a little joke there)
3) MSI won a CES Innovation award for the GTX 680 Lightning. The very same card that enthusiasts lust over and yet cannot use out of the box without MSI factory sponsoring.
So far this CES adventure is looking up I only hope I can make all of my meetings without losing my shirt in taxi fare.
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Asustor AS-606T NAS @ techPowerUp
Published: Monday, January 7, 2013 | By: DennisI am not sure how enthusiast a NAS box can be but if you love your storage but cannot administer a real fileserver the Asustor might be what you need.
Asustor is a new company with the purpose of providing top solutions for network attached storage and video surveillance. We are lucky to have one of their first products for review: the AS-606T NAS server. It is designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) or enthusiast users that need a lot of storage space and a ton of features.
These will be similar to what QNAP was doing back in the day but under the Asus brand with a few minor updates.
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Ubisoft probes sudden rash of hijack attacks on gamers' accounts
Published: Sunday, January 6, 2013 | By: DennisIf any of you rushed out to buy Far Cry 3 you may want to check your uplay account and make sure it didn't get hacked. Call it luck or karma but it would seem ubisoft in their mad rush to create something that people want added a few easter eggs allowing russian script kiddies to get in and hijack your stuff.
Additionally, many users deny using so-called 'trainers' (cheat programs) which might have been emailing credentials back to base so there's not a lot to go on at the moment. One of the biggest problems with PC gaming is the amount of logins required to play the games - anyone purchasing Ubisoft's Far Cry 3 through Steam will still need to load UPlay to play it. It's quite possible that password reuse is rampant in gaming circles right now, which certainly doesn't help.
Oh and the best part of this whole thing is the recommendation from ubisoft to link your uplay account to facebook, that way if your uplay account gets hacked you can login with facebook and reclaim your stuff.
or on the flip side, once you link your accounts this gives the hacker a direct link to your facebook profile and lose both accounts, and become advertisement fodder for ubisofts facebook campain. I say, make sure your password is secure, use legit software and don't play Far Cry 3 until they allow you to play it on steam without the need for uplay.
Then again I suspect everyone who rushed out to buy the game already beat it or has stopped playing so all of this may be for moot.
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Six gadget trends to look for at CES
Published: Friday, January 4, 2013 | By: DennisAnnual trek to Vegas for CES is only a few days away and here we have the large news sites already trying to scoop up all the media coverage. In the past CES was over and done (from a media standpoint) before the doors opened so I'm wondering what this year will be like.
If the show sets the tone for the year's technology, 2013 will be about watching TV on your 5-inch smartphone while your self-driving car ferries you to work. Companies will continue to try to connect everything to the Internet -- lights, power outlets, cars, cameras, kitchen appliances -- and allow you to control them from a mobile device.
There have been some big changes at this year's conference. Longtime headliner Microsoft has dropped out of CES, and mobile devices are increasingly saving their big announcements for the Mobile World Congress event in February. But hopefully the void is filled by exciting discoveries and gadgets we can't predict.Some editors have said this will be the last CES as we know it and I suspect they may be right. Microsoft is sitting this one out, (likely due to the uproar they expected from Windows 8) and I halfway expect there to be several empty booths and less occupied space.
Time will tell.
