The high-points/hits: Seeing Seagate, Synology, Sony, Microsoft, Intel, Buffalo, HighPoint, Fractal Design, Belkin, Ooma, Lutron, Philips, iStarUSA, NVIDIA, Verizon, and many many more. Getting somewhat embarrassing preferential treatment, once the press badge was spotted. This allowed me…
I have two videos to share, from the guy who is responsible for supporting those Fractal Design USB 3.0 upgrade kits. Actually, just last week, I installed the USB 3.0 upgrade kit in vZilla, which took all of 10 minutes, and was quite straight forward. These cases all have a lot of drive bays, and a…
CES gave me the opportunity to ask Synology for a product overview, right there in their booth. Franklin Hua did a wonderful job talking not only VMware compatibility, but also IOPS and other actual speed measurements, as also seen at his excellent technical blog here:…
This short 1080p video says it all. While my Canon Vixia HF S200 camcorder cannot do justice to the real-life experience of eyeballing this 55" beauty, at least you'll get some idea. In a nutshell, they looked great, better than anything currently available. I used the Canon stabilization…
Took this photo Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 12:40pm local time, right in front of CES 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The above version is viewable on any device, but is 4MB in size. The below version is SilverLight only, but I thought you might enjoy trying a more immersive photo…
I visited HighPoint's booth at CES 2012 on Thursday, January 12th, and had the opportunity to speak to May Hwang, HighPoint Technologies Sales Manager. In these brief, informal interviews, you'll hear May and I discuss HighPoint's latest USB 3.0 + HDD dock combos, and SSD caching, and RocketU USB…
A lot of the press swooped in and scooped the latest announcements at CES on Sunday and Monday. So by the time I arrived Tuesday, it seemed the press was done with walking around and visiting booths, and more intent on pounding out story after story on their laptops, in solitude. I saw this first…
Another fantastic day, packed in a lot of visits, and squeezed in a lot of questions, and actually got a lot of on-the-spot answers. Also got some more informal interview videos at Seagate and Ooma and others, will post details and pics and videos when I get back home, where the internet actually…
Had a great day, visiting many of the companies I wanted to, talking tech at some length. I'm impressed so far, with the quality of the staffing at the booths, and with the insane variety of stuff to see. I did get to record some brief video interviews that focused on virtualization and…
This is a list of some of the exhibitors I plan to visit: and here's the list of all exhibitors: ces12.mapyourshow.com/5_0/search.cfm If you make a comment below, those comments will show up immediately on my phone, and on the main TinkerTry.com site along the right-hand-edge, automatically.…
Our day started at 4am, as we made our way efficiently and uneventfully to the direct Virgin America 9:30am flight to Las Vegas. Found myself seated next to a nice guy from Intel, also headed to CES. We quickly started discussing the Core i7 2600K versus 2600, VT-d, WiDi, and more. Hadn't even left t…
On the recent BYOB Podcast, I announced that I'm going to CES 2012! Something I've wanted to do for about 20 years now. I'm also very happy I'll have the opportunity to meet David McCabe of homeservershow.com in person, and others from the tight-knit home server community like Mike Faucher, of the B…
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After 6 successful years testing then shipping well over 1,000 Xeon D Bundles, Wiredzone had to stop selling them in mid-2021 due to cost, supply, and logistics challenges. So far, Xeon D-1700/2700 (Ice Lake D) was a minor refresh for 2023, with Xeon D-1800/2800 (Granite Rapids D) refresh looking a little better for 2024. More cores, but still just PCIe Gen4 and DDR4. Looking ahead, I'm glad it's Pat Gelsinger at Intel's helm. I'm also grateful to have had the honor of working at VMware when Pat was the CIO there. I'll leave it at that, given the whole Broadcom thing.
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