» High-performance bling-oriented MGE barged into the quiet computing and HTPC market with a series of new low-acoustics products. One thing’s for sure I’m definitely doing this again! I’ll be more organized next time around, carry less weight, and bring a second pair of comfortable footwear. It’s a shame I spent way too much time looking unsuccessfully for Silverstone’s booth, and somehow managed to forget about seeing Paul McGowan and PS Audio’s new Gain Cell products. Among the best experiences were Antec’s private engagement, the Transmeta OQO, and the rest of the Transmeta presentation in general, and then my own visit to Alexis Park to hear, for myself, how Vandersteen’s speakers actually sound as well as the glorious performance of TAD Home’s Model One loudspeakers. I learned a ton of stuff and saw a heaping pile of interesting things, but feel that I could have seen more, still, and missed a couple things I was hoping to see. What can be better? It’s a nerd’s dream weekend.Įdward Ng: This was my first time going to a convention of such a scale. Wandering the convention floor for 3 days plays havoc with your feet but the pain is worth it, for around every corner there is a gem, a new gadget or company you have never heard of with the best product you have seen yet, like Transmeta’s OQO. To top it all off you are in Las Vegas, sin city, gambling to all hours with free drinks. but it was also an affirmation that at least part of the mission that SPCR set itself upon is being achieved.Ĭharles Gilliatt: For those of you who are unfamiliar with the CES… Picture 1.5 million square feet of electronics, venders that know their product inside and out, venders that allow you to examine any product you want from any angle… and let’s not forget the fabulous babes showing off their companies’ goodies. Yes, CES was a grand party, a convenient excuse to go to Vegas, a chance to see today what everyone else will see in 6 months…. Literally everyone had a multi-media-home-theater-web-appliance-widget to display, and they all wanted people to know how “un-PC-like” they were, which usually translates as “quiet”. The real driving force behind most of the new attention to noise is the push of the PC out of the office and into the living room. Although it’d be nice to think that our little corner of the internet at SPCR had something to do with that, in reality we have just been at the leading edge of a curve thats been slowing growing under the radar, and is only now becoming widely acknowledged. Having attended previous CES’s, I was amazed by the percentage of the computer hardware exhibitors who now include the concept of “quietness” into their marketing. Russ Kinder: You wouldn’t think that a convention hall jammed full of industry wonks - half of them talking into their cellphones, the other half trying to converse with each other in half a dozen different languages over the amplified marketing pitches coming from a hundred different booths at once - would be the place to see the in-roads that quiet computing has made. Consider it an idiosyncratic, selective web log blog from CES through SPCR eyes. Nor is this anything remotely close to a comprehensive look at all the products. No serious attempt at order was made, nor was there any point trying to assess noise, as the ambient level in the conventional halls probably exceeded 65 dBA on average. SPCR’s news team of Russ Kinder, Edward Ng and Charles Gilliatt spent several days in the controlled chaos that is the CES show in Vegas, slogging through miles of convention center aisles and ogling everything in sight to bring you an SPCR-centric report on CES 2005. So what can three enthusiast volunteer reporters for SPCR tell you about CES that has not already been done in a bigger and better way? They can bring you the show from a Silent PC Review perspective, a distinctly different perspective not shared by any other publication or web information site in the world. Many by teams of professional tech journalists with years of experience. Many that broke it up into daily reports. There are easily a dozen CES coverage articles in just English alone, never mind all the other languages that abound on the web. Editor’s IntroductionĪny technophile who didn’t attend will have read at least one news report of the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show by now. Januby Russ Kinder, Edward Ng and Charles Gilliatt. SPCR’s news team of Russ Kinder, Edward Ng and Charles Gilliatt spent several days in the controlled chaos of the 2005 CES in Vegas, slogging through miles of convention center aisles and ogling everything in sight to bring you an SPCR-centric report.
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