To be honest, I didn’t really take many pictures in Intel’s booth because… well… it was all ‘Blue’ and none of it was frankly very interesting. (I’m sorry Intel friends… it just wasn’t. And the representation there seemed very disinterested in engaging anyone that stopped by. Case and point: I LURKED around the new video editing chip technologies that Intel was purportedly hyping up – stuff that’s supposed to improve the efficiency and speed of video editing by up to 50%. The guy there never even asked me a single question even though I was standing right next to him for a good 7-8 minutes.)
Don’t get me wrong: There were a lot of people just wandering around the booth because hey… it’s Intel right? But no one seemed to be concentrated on any one thing for very long. It kind reminded me of an aquarium where people just sort of stood and looked at thing briefly and then moved on to the next aquatic animal.
Mobile Internet DevicesFortunately, there was one group that was on their game and definitely held the attention of the CES crowd and that was the Mobile Internet Devices kiosk. These guys had more Asian tech watchers per square foot than midtown Tokyo during Lunch hour.
They had numerous ultramobile PC formats presented there, most with Windows but a few with some distribution of Linux. They seemed to run decently although to be honest, I was still more impressed with the OQO which I’d found at Qualcomm’s booth. I assume that the OQO doesn’t use an Intel chip in it and that’s the reason you didn’t see it there.
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