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News from Computex Day 1

2010 Computex

Computex is one of the world’s largest computer and technology conventions, held at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan. This year’s event starts on June 1 and concludes June 5 2010.

The first day of Computex has been dominated by tablets, with several manufacturers unveiling their “iPad killers“. The notable tablets include:

  • The Asus Eee Pad, which will be a 12-inch tablet with Intel Core 2 Duo CULV processors and 10-hours of battery life. This first tablet will run Windows 7, while another promised tablet will reportedly run Google Chrome OS.
  • The MSI Windpad 100 – Another Windows 7 tablet with a ten-inch screen, Intel Atom processor.
  • MSI also showed off the WindPad 110 with Google Android and an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.

Meanwhile, Nvidia unveiled their plans for what they are calling the 3D PC revolution. Their vision is to bring “film-like visual fidelity” to computer screens. The presentation was coupled with the announcement of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 465, which will be Blu-ray 3D-enabled. The actual $1,500 3D-enabled PCs will include 3D displays and accompanying glasses.

Hitachi-LG announced a storage device that combines Blu-ray drive and a 32GB or 64GB solid-state drive, essentially packing the power of an optical drive and the storage capacity of a hard drive all into one slim, slot-loading device. Their aim is to create a drive small enough to fit into netbooks, tablets, and ultra-portable by eliminating the need for extra space for a second drive.

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In addition to its Eee Pad, Asus also announced the release of its App Store for netbooks. With its extensive line of Eee PC netbooks, Asus has invested quite a bit into the platform. Now it seems, they are hoping to cash in a little.  The Asus App Store will be installed on all Windows-based Eee netbooks in the second half of 2010. In 2011, Asus plans to add App Store support to their upcoming MeeGo-based netbooks.

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