CES 2012 Roll-Up: HH Features From CES

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by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 09:00 AM EDT

We’re making our way around the show floor at the Consumer Electronics Show and have some interesting tid-bits to share with you all from our tours of the Intel and SuperMicro booths in the Central and South Halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Not surprisingly, much of Intel’s focus this year has been on Ultrabooks. There are Ultrabooks virtually everywhere and all of Intel’s major mobile partners have shown off current or future Ultrabook desings in their respective displays or in Intel’s. There is a large tower at the corner of Intel’s gigantic booth with a myriad of Ultrabooks on display from partners like Samsung, Toshiba, Asus, Acer, LG, Lenovo and others. Of all of the machines, the Lenovo Yoga is perhaps the most buzzworthy, with its dual-articulating hinge design (we’ve captured the Yoga on video here). Unfortunately, there wasn’t much new infomration regarding next-gen Ivy Bridge-based Ultrabooks, but it won’t be long before we’ve got more to report on that front.

In a closed door session, Intel was also showing off new All-in-One DIY platforms built around Sandy Bridge and Intel-built Thin Mini-ITX motherboards. The DIY platforms will include a screen and enclosure, and feature standard thermal solutions and motherboards which sport, thin 25mm I/O shields.

Although there wasn’t much new going on in Intel’s booth just yet, stay tuned to HotHardware for some big news that’ll be hitting in the next few hours.

We also spent some time checking out SuperMicro’s booth. The company is well known for their server motherboards and enterprise-class workstations, but they’ve also recently entered the entry-level gaming system space. Unlike many boutique gaming system building, which tend to sport flashy chassis and focus on overclocking, SuperMicro has instead equipped their machines with their own workstation-class motherboards and focused on stability and reliability. SuperMicro systems can be user customized at the time of order, with prices starting in the $1000 range.

Tags: Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Lenovo, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Samsung, ViewSonic, ces2012

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com