CES 2010 - USB 3, ITV/Media Streamers and Lots of eReaders
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 6, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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The Move to Micro-ATX
It was strange to see Inwin at the CES Unveiled event, but at least one item caught our eye. It's a micro ATX gaming chassis:
In Win had a Radeon HD 5970 mounted in the case to show that you can accommodate even the longest cards. Two of them would work if you wanted.
It's made possible by moving the HDD bays to the very bottom of the case. There's not much room for a ton of drives, but honestly these days it's not necessary given the capacity of 3.5" drives. There's a single 5.25" bay up top and two 3.5" bays at the bottom of the case.
Add GPS to your iPod Touch
Apple created a huge accessory market with the iPod and the trend continues with the iPod Touch. A company called Dual demonstrated a GPS cradle with GPS receiver and speaker to turn your iPod Touch into a portable nav device.
The software is NavAtlas from the iTunes App store and seemed to work well in person. It was snappy but the true test will be how this thing fares on the go.
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mckirkus - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
You don't need USB 3 to stream HD over a network. 15MB/second will easily saturate a 10/100 network and I don't know of very many blu-ray disks that top out at much more than 3MB/s. (that's megabytes)Of course if you backing up large files over a gigabit network to a USB hard drive then yeah, it makes sense.
jmurbank - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
HD can easily handle on a 100 Mb network. HD bitrate is around 25 to 50 megabits per second. It is far from what you think. This is why the Sandstorm HD Homerun ATSC tuners can work. Sure it will help to have 1 Gb NIC, but that will be over kill. HD will over load a wireless network connection even 802.11n because wireless networks has a lot of over head.If I were backing up data, I would use IDE or SATA and screw USB.
rlthomas - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
Do you mean 100Mb network can handle HD? Why screw USB, it's just another option? Do you mean eSATA? Portable HDD are handy.Lysh - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - link
Well assuming it houses a 9.5mm drive, currently the highest capacity is 640GB.But 12.5mm, 1TB is the max then.