GIGABYTE Video Factory Tour during Computex 2008

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Tweaktown published a report of a tour through one of Gigabyte's factories.

Quote: "t wouldn’t be a Computex without at least one factory tour, and GIGABYTE was kind enough to offer us a tour of their Nan Ping factory out in Taipei. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Laptops and Montevina at Computex 2008

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Futurelooks reports about Asus Laptops loving Montevina and Gaming.

Quote: "The biggest global brand in all of Taiwan is Asus. Manufacturing everything from motherboards to mobile phones, Asus has a rated brand value of over $1 billion. While a good portion of the North American public is only familiar with laptop brands like HP and Dell, Asus certainly has a lot to offer to the world in that segment of the market as well. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Round-up of mini Notebooks at Computex 2008

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Futurelooks published a round-up of the new mini notebooks that have been unveiled at the Computex 2008.

Quote: "It would nearly impossible to cover all of the subnotebooks that were on display at COMPUTEX Taipei 2008, but we managed to round up a good number of them for your perusing pleasure. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Jun 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Thermaltake SPEDO at Computex 2008

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Futurelooks got a report about the new Thermaltake SPEDO chassis.

Quote: "In a private room guarded by Thermaltake’s own CEO, Kenny Lin, was a new weapon in Thermaltake’s cooling arsenal. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Jun 2008 01:45:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD's upcoming 790GX Motherboards at Computex 2008

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Tweaktown reports about an early showing fo of the upcoming 790GX Motherboards at Computex 2008.

Quote: "AMD is not due to officially release its codenamed RS780D named 790GX chipset (along with SB750 chipset and AMD Overdrive Extreme overclock tweaking utility) until a little later but several companies were showing off their early design boards at Computex Taipei 2008 this week. Read more

Posted on Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Weekly Top 10: 3G iPhone, Computex 2008, Mini-Notebooks

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On Monday we finally will know if there is a new iPhone and what it will look like. The most promising rumors in the last days are the ones talking about massive amounts of boxes that have been spotted and thought to be 3G iPhones. This would mean that we can buy new iPhones right after Steve Jobs announces them at the WWDC 08.
The Computex 2008 Show took place this week in Taipei. Loads of new mini-notebooks have been announced. See some of them below. Read more

Posted on Sun, 8 Jun 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Top 50 Computex 2008 Booth Babes

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We already reported about several Computex 2008 Booth Babe photo galleries and this one is the last one for this year.

Hexus published their top 50 Computex 2008 Booth babe photos. Read more

Posted on Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Intel Nehalem Socket 1366 Motherboards Emerge at Computex 2008

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Intel Nehalem Socket 1366 Motherboards have emerge at Computex 2008. PCStats provides a closer look at the new Intel Nehalem.

Quote: "At Computex 2008 this week, Intel showcased a half dozen socket 1366 Nehalem-ready motherboards in its booth at the new Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei. Read more

Posted on Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus shows VirtualReal Interface at Computex 2008

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Asus rocked Computex 2008 already with their new Asus Eee PC 901 and Asus Eee PC 1000. The company underlined its innovator status by showing off some new technologies from their R&D department at the Computex this week.

Asus showed off a new interface technology called VirtualReal interface. The technology presents itself to the user as a minimalistic interface that makes controlling and interacting with computers convenient and easy. Read more

Posted on Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:33:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Flybook at Computex 2008

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Futurelooks reports about Flybook notebooks at the Computex 2008. The first Flybook was already shown in 2005.

Quote: "Dialogue Technology Corporation has a wholly different philosophy. While its Flybook range of laptops can be just as small as something like the Eee PC, these bad boys are actually full computers. In fact, the Flybook reps say that their little laptops are just as powerful as a 3GHz desktop computer. Read more

Posted on Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

More Computex Taipei 2008 Booth Babes

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Tweaktown just pointed us to their Computex 2008 Booth Babes gallery.

Quote: "We are taking a break out from our live news coverage of Computex Taipei 2008 to touch on something that has become expected from us around this time every year. We had better not mention any names of the people that repeatedly ask us each year. Read more

Posted on Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Unreleased Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 spotted at Computex

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The guys at Hexus got their hands on a Gigabyte card that is based on the unreleased ATI Radeon HD 4850.

The single-slot card with the future mid-range GPU from ATI has 512MB GDDR3 memory and has two DV-I outputs. Read more

Posted on Thu, 5 Jun 2008 07:25:53 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Computex 2008 Show Girl Voting Photo Gallery

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Chinese site ZOL published a large gallery featuring the prettiest booth babes from the Computex 2008 show.

You can vote for your favorite one. There are over 60 Computex 2008 showgirls in this gallery. The site is in Chinese, but the voting works without registering. Just push the orange buttons.
The photo above features a very pretty Intel Booth Babe. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:29:25 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New AMD Notebook Platform based on AMD Turion X2 Ultra unveiled at Computex 2008

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AMD unveiled their next generation notebook platform (formerly known as Puma) at the Computex 2008 today.

The new AMD notebook platform features new AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processors with ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series Graphics and industry-leading wireless for greater throughput and range. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

More Computex 2008 Show Girl Photos

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The Computex 2008 has more pretty sights than the Asus Eee PC 1000 or MSI Wind. We found some more photos of Computex 2008 show girls. Above you see a beautiful booth babe to be found at the Nvidia booth. More Nvidia girls photos are available on Zol.
Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Foxconn Pico Projector at Computex 2008

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Foxconn is exhibiting a tiny Pico Projector at the Computex 2008.

The tiny DLP projector from Foxconn measures 55x46x26mm and weighs only 65g.
The .3 inch TI DLP inside the Foxconn Pico projector creates a WVGA (854x480px) resolution image. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:21:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

OCZ Technology Launches New Gear at Computex

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OCZ Technology has launched some interesting new gear at Computex. One of the most interesting products is OCZ’s new DDR3 PC3-17000 Flex II memory modules. The modules can be liquid cooled and run at speeds of 2133MHz+.

PC Power and Cooling is also releasing a new PSU called the TurboCool 860 that is NVIDIA ESA certified. New flash drives are also being offered with a small compact Spyder unit, a larger higher capacity drive called the Diesel and a drive called the Fortress. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:56:52 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Asus Eee PC 901, 1000 and 1000(H) unveiled at Computex 2008

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Asus finally announced the new generation of Asus Eee PCs. We reported aspects and tidbits of the new Intel Atom based Eee PCs, but now Asus has revealed the Asus Eee PC 901, Eee PC 1000 and Eee PC 1000 (H) officially.

The announcement focuses on the new extended battery life, larger screens, and solid state discs. We still need to wait for datasheets of the 901, 1000 and 1000(H) to see the available configurations. The 1000(H) can be configured with a HDD. The Asus Eee 1000 apparently supports a 40GB SSD configuration. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:37:22 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Eee PC 1000 at Computex 2008

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The Asus Eee PC 1000 and Asus Eee PC 901 have their unveiling today at the Computex 2008 in Taipei. We reported yesterday about the leaked specifications of the new 10 inch Atom based Asus Eee PC 1000, but we did not have any new photos yet.
AVing published several photos of the Asus Eee 1000 and the new Asus Eee 901 from the Asus press-event and booth. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:27:15 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MSI Wind at Computex 2008

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MSI presents the MSI Wind Atom based mini notebook at the Computex 2008.

MSI already officially announced the MSI Wind in May. AVing has a couple of photos from the MSI booth at the Computex 2008 featuring the MSI Wind U100. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Computex 2008: New Intel Atom CPUs

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Intel announces new Intel Atom CPUs and exhibits more than 100 products at the Computex 2008.

Intel executive Sean Maloney today said more powerful microprocessors and high-speed WiMAX wireless networks will usher in a new era of the full Internet on mobile devices. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr