Welcome to Las Vegas and Legit Reviews’ coverage of CES 2009. This year the show for the press officially kicks off on Thursday but we’ve arrived early to bring you some pre-show activities. Read on to see what we saw at CES: Unveiled: The Official Press Event of the International CES today! From Corsair’s new Dominator GT memory modules to AMD’s Neo powered notebooks we cover it all.
One theme emerging from this year’s Consumer Electronic Show is the introduction of a new breed of low-priced laptops called “netbooks”. These netbooks typically cost between $300 and $500 and typically use the Intel Atom Continue reading “High-Tech Companies Take Up Netbooks”.
Motorola has unveiled a new eco-friendly mobile phone which it claims is carbon neutral and made out of recycled materials. The Moto W233 Renew is manufactured using plastic from recycled water bottles. The Moto W233 Continue reading “Motorola to Offer Phone Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles”.
Western Digital will be introducing two new external storage drives designed for use with Mac computers The My Passport for Mac portable drive and My Book for Mac desktop drive at this years annual Macworld Continue reading “WD Introduces Two New Storage Drives for Mac Users”.
PC Power & Cooling 1500VA UPS How many times have you been working on some critical paper, either for school or for work, when all of sudden the power goes out? Probably not too often, Continue reading “CES 2009: PC Power & Cooling 1500 VA UPS”.
Acer and Asustek Computer have both found new confidence after seeing booming sales of their netbooks in the US during the year-end holiday season, and have set high sales targets for netbooks in 2009, according Continue reading “Acer and Asustek looking at booming netbook sales in 2009”.
The Corsair Dominator 6GB PC3-12800 DDR3 triple channel memory kit has been specially designed to work with Intel’s new Core i7 platform. With a 1600MHz clock frequency and latencies of 8-8-8-24 at 1.65V VDIMM, the TR3X6G1600C8D memory kit is one that will impress your friends and strike fear into those gaming against you. If you are building an Intel X58 Express based system this is a must read.
VIA Technologies has recently notified its partners that the company plans to launch the next-generation Nano 3000 series CPU in the third quarter of 2009, while engineering samples of a dual-core Nano CPU will be Continue reading “VIA to launch new Nano CPU in 3Q09”.
CoolIT Systems noticed that well built water cooler was missing from the sub $80 market and went back to a drawing board to see if something could be designed that had the cooling performance that enthusiasts demand and a price tag that won’t break the bank during these troubled economic times. After many long hours and a year in the test lab CoolIT Systems came up with the Domino A.L.C. Read on to see how this cooler performs on an Intel Core i7 platform!
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is in negotiations with Intel seeking a slackening of its current restrictions which limit the use of Atom series processors only in netbook PCs with up to 10.2-inch panels, according to Taiwan-based notebook Continue reading “HP asking Intel to ease restrictions on Atom processors”.
Always short of time? Not enough moments in the day? Tonight you’ll get an extra second to enjoy 2008. Use it wisely; perhaps an extra long smooch is called for. These so called leap seconds Continue reading “How Many Seconds Are In A Minute? 61 Seconds Tonight!”.
The Black Series X58B-A “Nehalem” Motherboard with LGA1366 socket support for Intel’s all-new “Core-i7” processors is currently the flagship motherboard for ECS Elitegroup. With the Intel X58 Express chipset handling the North Bridge duties and the Intel Intel ICH10R South Bridge handling the rest of the board you know this will be a sound and stable platform. Read on to see how the ECS X58B-A motherboard does on the benchmarks and to see it overclocks.
Yahoo! and Intel announced that they will premiere their joint Internet-enabled TV prototypes at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Both companies have built a substantial business in the this new media market with Continue reading “Yahoo & Intel Team Up for Internet-Enabled TV”.
Advanced Micro Devices, the second-largest producer of personal-computer processors, will cut about 600 jobs, 100 more than previously planned, as it struggles to return to profitability. The cuts will result in an expense of about Continue reading “AMD to trim about 600 jobs, 100 more than planned”.
Asustek Computer will showcase gyroscope e-sticks and gaming software for notebooks during Computex Taipei next year as the company explores the business opportunities of MEMS in the notebook market, according to sources with gyroscope makers. Continue reading “Asustek to showcase MEMS e-sticks for notebook games next year”.
