Event Coverage

CES 2008: Show Floor Coverage (Part 2)

By Zachary Chan - 12 Jan 2008

Dell's Booth

Dell's Booth

 Dell brought along a lot of their new toys to CES. First up, we have their sexy new and sleek Crystal FP monitor that features clear tempered glass design with built-in speaker systems on the side and a gleaming tripod metal stand. It even has integrated webcam and mic as well as very funky touch buttons. A picture really doesn't do justice to this beautiful 22-inch widescreen HD panel.

 Second up is the 2008 upgrade to Dell's longstanding LCD monitor series. The biggest of the bunch is the new Dell Ultrasharp 3008WFP, 30-inches of widescreen beauty with added DisplayPort support.

 The Dell XPS One is another PC to take on the Apple iMac concept of an integrated one piece computer experience. And Dell made it look beautiful too with a tempered smoke glass base. The motion sensing controls are a great touch, which also extends to other inputs such as the optical drive, which lights up when you go near to insert a CD. Besides all the design, the XPS One is a pretty decent system, featuring a 20-inch widescreen, Core 2 Duo processors, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400, up to 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD and an optional Blu-ray drive.

 Dell had their updated Inspiron 1525 notebooks on display, but more interesting are the new covers designs. No longer plain, we can now choose those with sleek patterns and decals as well.

 Dell's most powerful gaming notebook, the XPS 1730 features SLI graphics capability and in addition, there is Ageia PhysX as well. It features a 17-inch widescreen, HDD RAID capability, full-sized keyboard with numpad, LCD game panel and of course, being bigger than life. Pictured here is the special World of Warcraft Edition of the XPS 1730. Watch for our review!

 Dell's environment friendly Inspiron 531 systems are Energy Star 4.0 compliant, featuring better power management, which in turn helps reduce CO2 emissions. These green budget PCs are AMD Athlon 64 X2 configured.

 Ever wondered how to actually make use of all that graphics horsepower you have with your spanking new dual/triple/quadruple SLI system you have running? Alienware has the answer with this prototype curved widescreen display, which is essentially the size of two 24-inch widescreen monitors with a natural curved view. This baby is actually running on DLP projection and was running a Crysis demo at max resolution.

 In another prototype display, we have a concept notebook equipped with a 16:9 full 1080p display panel. No word on anything else except that. If anything, the display was incredibly stunning.

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