CeBit 2007, Day 2

Ξ March 16th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |

Jeees it’s been a crazy day. I’ve met so many people I have a fist sized stack of business cards. Thankfully it was better than yesterday, now I seem to have the hang of the whole trade show thing a bit better. To cap it all off, I’m an E6700 richer also Thank you, Intel.
Excuse me, but I think a quick “Woot” is in order.

Themes of the show so far:

“50″ Intel CPUs seem to be good FSB overclockers, although I’ve only seen one unofficial demonstration.

DDR3 will have the impact of a nat on a car windshield. No one has samples, samples are ridiculously expensive and everyone is complaining. People are still highly focused on DDR2 across the channel.

Overall it’s mostly much of the same, Asus’ soundcard and external graphics for laptops looks great. Albatron have a mini-itx AMD 690G board and clear case, there’s a FT of Bearlake P35 boards on the stands, the Commadore gaming PC looks completely awesome and most of the Asian ladies are serrrrrrrrrrrriously fine.

You want PCI-Express x1 cards? EVERYONE has them: USB, Firewire, SATA, eSATA, Sound, Analouge/Digital/Dual tuner TV cards, and Vista ready everything.

The biggest thing to piss me off (and a lot of people on the stands)? People just there to blag free shit. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy my journalistic perks (the E6700 I won! there’s a difference), but people pay money to go to CeBit and basically walk round all day and get CRAP. Badges, stickers, a T-shirt or memory if they are lucky, bouncy balls, crappy bags, hats, pens, media. Basically everything you could imagine people could give away. It’s like some sort of sport.
Anyway, back to work.