CeBIT 2008 Day 2 - OCZ's Mind Controllable Mouse, ASUS' HDMI Sound Card, Intel and more
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 5, 2008 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Trade Shows
ASUS' Intel Atom based UMPCs
Given that ASUS was in a separate hall from the rest of the motherboard makers, we missed its Atom based UMPCs in our Day 1 coverage.
ASUS had two models on display, the R50 and R70:
The R50 is the smaller of the two devices while the R70 is more of a small Tablet PC form factor.
The ASUS R50, using the new Intel Atom processor
Unfortunately both the R50 and R70 ran Windows Vista, which even on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom is sluggish.
The ASUS R70
ASUS has a very Apple-like backlit logo on the rear of the R70
Intel Atom running at 1.60GHz
The graphics driver lists the GPU as being Intel Ultra Mobile Media
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AmberClad - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
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DigitalFreak - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
Thanks for the info. Gotta say those cases are F'GLY though.DigitalFreak - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
Found this one too, but it's VERY expensive -DigitalFreak - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
Dammit - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...cjsketchy - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
Pandas everywhere are cursing this latest 'innovation' from Asus... what a waste of effort. Never understood why anyone would want to enclose a computer in such a poor conductor of heat.7Enigma - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
Uh, and plastic is so much better?rudy - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
I am interested in the NIA. But my main question is what else can you do with it. To reduce CTS it would be great if you could just type with it. I have never been happy with voice recognition so far and it doesnt work well in an office with other people. But if these products could be made with enough input recognition to at least get the letters numbers and punctuation of the keyboard I would buy it in a hearbeat. Imagine taking notes in class without bothering people with the keys and writing documents and emails quickly and silently.augmentedreality - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link
I just picked an OCZ NIA up.. I know this is an old thread.. I haven't spent hours training it yet but I am anticipating some interesting hacks out soon and maybe some firmware hacks since this is a pretty cheap item now. Anyway, I will review further on my own site as I play with it, you can catch that at http://automatedhome.ca">http://automatedhome.ca and soon at augmenting-reality.com where I intend to try out all these devices to put together a good William Gibson style portable computer complete with Vusix 920AV glasses and some Nvidia or android or Iphone device at the center.. anyway, more to come son on what I can get this toy to do..;)Craig - http://automatedhome - http://augmenting-reality.com
DigitalFreak - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
Could you please find out if the Asus Xonar HDAV card will output TrueHD and DTS MA bitstream, or only LPCM?strafejumper - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
coool a device that can sense when i move my eyebrows