There are very few true PC gamers that'll willingly buy a laptop over a desktop, primarily because the performance-price difference is so great. Rock's just added an Intel Q9000 chip to its flagship gaming laptop - the Xtreme 780, but I suspect the majority of gamers out there simply won't care.
It's not even that great a machine. Quad-core aside, the 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS is merely adequate, the 2GB of memory will look very meagre before the end of 2009, and a 250GB hard drive is considerably less than most gamers will need. For £1700, which is what the Xtreme 780 costs, you could make two desktop PCs that outspec this laptop.
The rather non-glamorous Pentax has revealed a couple of thoroughly mid-range new digital cameras - the Optio P70 and Optio E70.
The P70, on the left there in the fetching white finish, is the most impressive model, managing 12megapixels with a 4x optical zoom, a 2.7" LCD monitor round the back and what Pentax calls its "Pixel Track Shake Reduction technology" image stabilisation tool. It'll also come in red and silver, if you're mainstream enough that one of the first things you look for when buying a camera is what colour it comes in.
Meanwhile, the E70 (right) is a bit more "entry level" - offering "large control buttons," a 10megapixel sensor and 3X zoom. Both will be out in the US this February, for $199 and $139. We'll no doubt have updates on UK dates and prices for both, as and when Pentax deems us worthy.
Cisco has announced its new Media Hub (well, the Linksys by Cisco Media Hub, but that's a bit of a "my company owns your brand" mouthful) which allows users to consolidate their home multimedia libraries and access them from their network or over the Internet.
The Hub comes preloaded with a general media server as well as an iTunes server, and automatically searches the network for other media devices, presenting music, pictures and video within a simple web browser.
I've always scoffed a little at docks and generally anything that cradles your precious PMP but after a few annoying, arm aching hours of clutching my iRiver Spinn on the trip across the Pond, I was rather pleased to see Susi leap at the Sharper Image's device at CES Unveiled complete with motorised rotator. You'll see what I mean...
I'm starting to get a little sick of computers without optical drives what with the world still handing out CDs full of drivers, software and all manner of useful and inaccessible data, but if I could get round that block I'd probably be really impressed with the MSI X320 as unveiled at CES, er, Unveiled 2009 today.
The 13.4", 16:9 ratio machine is MacBook Air thin at under 1" and relatively thin on the wallet too at an expect $799 when it's released. It's run by the Intel Atom and weighs 1.3kg which probably makes it a netbook not that MSI is that bothered what people want to class it as, so long as they buy it and they will.
If ever there were a gadget operated by witchcraft it would be the Powermat. We heard about it a few weeks back but no matter how many times you say magnetic induction it just sounds too good to be true.
However, despite my initial concerns, it looks not only really good but really quite reasonably priced too. The only issue is having to buy a different case each time for all your smaller gadgets.
With the world collapsing in on itself ecologically, there may not be many animals out there left to shoot at for sport soon, so I'm glad to see that the Duck Hunt infrared experience has been tailor made for the niche.
There are very few true PC gamers that'll willingly buy a laptop over a desktop, primarily because the performance-price difference is so great. Rock's just added an Intel Q9000 chip to its flagship gaming laptop - the Xtreme 780, but I suspect the majority of gamers out there simply won't care.
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