Asus Eee Pad EP101TC Demo and Hands-on at Computex Taipei 2010

Plextor Launches New Blu-Ray Solutions at Computex 2010

New networked media player and compatible external BD-ROM let you enjoy Blu-Ray without a Blu-Ray player
Taipei, Taiwan –Plextor, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, announces its new networked media player PlexMedia, as well the compatible PX-B120U external BD-ROM drive, at Computex 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Visitors can take a first look at Plextor’s new networked media player, the PlexMedia, while at the show. This is the first networked media player that can be connected to an external USB BD-ROM drive, making it possible to watch high-definition Blu-ray discs in your living room without having to purchase a Blu-ray disc player.

Simultaneously with the media player, Plextor also launches the PX-B120U, a compatible external BD-ROM drive. This portable drive can be connected to the media player to become your living room Blu-ray disc player, but is versatile enough to carry in a notebook bag or connect to a desktop PC – allowing you to enjoy High Definition content everywhere.

Also at Computex, Plextor will showcase its complete Blu-ray disc drive portfolio, including its PX-B950SA 12X BD Writer.
Also being showcased are the recently-introduced Networked Attached Storage device (NAS), and a new portfolio of Solid State Drives (SSD). The two-bay NAS drive will be followed up with a four-bay NAS solution for small to medium-sized businesses. By adding this new NAS system, Plextor aims to provide storage solutions for both home users as well as professionals.

Plextor also recognizes the growing demand for faster and more reliable storage solutions and announces its new portfolio of SSDs at Computex. Plextor will launch both MLC and SLC format SSD drives later in 2010.

The SSD drives complement Plextor’s range of storage products, which will also consist of a new lineup of external Hard Disk Drives. At Computex, Plextor will showcase its new generation of portable USB 3.0 and e-SATA Hard Disk Drives.

Looking for a USB 3 capable mainboard, Gigabyte is flooding the Show with USB 3 boards. See picture below to have a feel of the various series having that capability.

Advantages of the innovative MSI Wind Pad

MSI Wind Pad featured with Intel’s approx. 2.4 watts latest power-saving CPU platform, eight+ hours of battery power, and the most advanced hardware specifications, including a 10” multi-touch control screen for the preloaded Windows 7 operating system, that offer a perfect touch of the latest technology living. In addition, with a mere 800 grams in weight and comes with built-in 3G and WiFi wireless transfer, GPS, G-Sensor, Web Cam, as well as USB, SD card reader and HDMI ports, all made it a best companion for wireless urban entertainment users.

MSI Wind Pad offers humanized operation interface and application software

MSI Wind Pad features with the most advanced Windows 7 operating system, G-Sensor and 10” multi-touch control screen; in addition, it comes with 5 MSI software including the exclusive Wind Touch UI, taskbar magnifier, EasyFace 2.0, E-Reader, and EasyUse etc., all give MSI Wind Pad the most humanized operating interface and application software. Furthermore, its embedded G-Sensor’s responsiveness could make the screen rotate automatically with various body angles to provide users exceptional experiences. 

1. Wind Touch UI?MSI Wind Pad changes the regular interface of the traditional operating system, with deep studies on consumers’ experiences with tablet PC touch screens, we innovate an exclusive operating interface – the Wind Touch – for the MSI Wind Pad, that combines work, play, tools and internet four major functions, and to integrate various MSI exclusive software including EasyViewer, MSN, Skype, IE, multimedia player, Windows multimedia center, and online phone etc. Consumers can easily connect to the entire world via Web Browsing , video and image watching, and even Instant Messaging and online phone, all at your finger touches and on MSI Wind Pad touching screen.

The simple interface of MSI Wind Touch UI replaces the original interface operating system to bring a whole new touch control experience for MSI Wind Pad

When MSI Wind Pad rotates into vertical, MSI Wind Touch UI would automatically rotate to same direction

1. MSI exclusive EsyFace2.0: MSI Wind Pad features exclusive face identification software, the embedded 1.3 M Pixels Web Cam can provide information security through biometric technology. MSI EasyFace 2.0 exclusively integrates MSN, website login account and pin, and system login password to provide not only a high-level information security protection, but also to integrate all these data with your face characters, that will recognize you and to save your pressure for remembering your account and password details.

MSI logins MSN, website and operating system by exclusive face identification

The identifying accuracy is 100% approach through MSI exclusive and strengthen technologies

1. MSI toolbar magnifier: In view to provide users perfect using experience, MSI specifically studied and developed the exclusive status of the toolbar magnifier, enabling consumers to operate every function of Windows 7 operating system easily by finger tips. By touching the toolbar at the lower right corner of Windows 7 will automatically starts the MSI toolbar magnifier. It could help to enlarge icons such as magnifying clock, internet, power options and volume adjustment to your finger size, you will be able to operate easily all functions and no longer need to operate by your nails or touch pens

When gently touch with your finger, the toolbar will be

magnified automatically

The status bar is also magnified automatically by touch of a finger

1. MSI EasyUse: Apart from the exclusive MSI toolbar magnifier, MSI adds EasyUse page zoom shortcut program to the MSI Wind Pad. When touching and moving the translucent EasyUse icon on the screen, all application window icons that are on can be easily managed for open, close or to select. All these actions that were originally controlled through a mouse and keyboard can now be simply replaced by the EasyUse.

By touch of the translucent EasyUse icon (red frame in the picture), all opened application windows can be open, close or to select

1. E-Reader application software: MSI Wind Pad features with E-Reader offers not only static images and text, but also with animation and music to ensure readers a vivid dynamic audio and visual experience in reading. E-Reader can hyperlink to the data base inventory provided by a third e-book provider for freely purchase and  and download thousands of e-books, newspapers and magazines, MSI Wind Pad can turn to become your personal library!

E-Reader provides not only static text, but also animation music

MSI Wind Pad detailed specifications:

1. A.     CPU/OS?Intel Atom Z530/Win7 Home Premium

Featuring Intel’s latest power-saving CPU platform (2.4W, 1.66GHx) and preloaded Windows 7 operating system to give smoother operating efficiencies.

1. B.      Display?10” wide with Multi Touch

10” Multi Touch screen comes with MSI exclusive Wind Touch UI, EasyUse and toolbar magnifier to provide consumers humanized perfect touch control experiences.

1. C.      Memory?DDRII 2GB , SO DIMM*1
2. D.     Storage?512MB NAND Flash On Board + internal SDHC support to 32GB

Embedded with 32GB SSD with high-speed and stable data storage efficiency to lower power emission.

1. E.      802.11 b/g/n?3G Module?Embedded

802.11 b/g/n and 3G Module for mobile internet access in anywhere and at anytime

1. F.      Web Cam?1.3 M Pixels

1.3 M Pixels Web Cam comes with MSI exclusive EasyFace 2.0 software to provide excellence and convenience in information security protection

1. G.     GPS?Embedded

Embedded with GPS chips to support various GPS software, matching with a 10” multi-touch screen, MSI Wind Pad could become your elite guide.

1. H.     G Sensor?Embedded

G Sensor embedded with responsiveness enabling the screen to rotate automatically with the body angles to provide users exceptional experiences.

1. I.       Battery Life?8hrs

Super battery power lasts for 8+ hours to provide no disruptions at work!

1. J.       Dimension ?274 x 173 x 16.6mm
2. K.     Weight ?800g (with battery)

Slim in dimension and weight for mobility to carry everywhere

1. L.      I/O Ports?1xUSB, 1X Mini USB, Mini HDMI, DC in, H/P out, SD Reader, SIM Card Slot
2. Completed input and output ports to include HDMI and SD Reader: to connect with larger size TV screen, super convenient for unlimited expansion!

Best in Performance Ultimate in multimedia

MSI to challenge future Cloud technologies Creating peaks in Tablet PC & Cloud computing studies

 (Taipei – May 31, 2010) MSI, a leading manufacturer in computer hardware and solutions, is once again challenging future technologies with various concept products displayed in the 2010 COMMPUTEX Taipei. With an array of product lines on NB, All-in-One PC, motherboards and graphic cards to include 3D, WiMAX and Car PC with MOD systems, MSI is going to exhibit more this year, encompassing the most popular e-book, cloud computing and tablet PC technologies, in particular, highlights will include MSI various innovative technologies and stylish designs that are recognized and awarded by COMMPUTEX.

“While MSI NB and AIO PC were successfully ranked in the World’s Top 10 Branding List, we mark 2010 as our ‘Brand Implementation Year’. We had launched world’s first 3D AIO, as well as the super slim Wind U160 and X-Slim X620 laptops had both won the German iF design award, and with the conceptual products shown today, our strengths on R&D and aesthetic designs are best proven.” Joseph Hsu, CEO of MSI, said

MSI showcased a series of heavy-weighted conceptual products during the press conference and are expected to stir a new wave in the market; MSI conceptual technologies shown in COMMPUTEX composed of:

MSI Wind Pad tablet PC – a touch of new technology living

MSI Wind Pad adopts Intel® latest power-saving CPU platform, with 8+ hours of battery power, a mere 800 grams in weight , and a built-in 3G and WiFi wireless transfer, plus GPS, USB and HDMI ports as well as Web Cam; all of which made it an ultimate 10” mobile internet device. Apart from comprehensive functional and mobility, the preloaded Windows 7 operating system could be handled within your finger tips by means of the Wind Pad multi-touch control technology that touches also the hearts of wireless urban entertainment users.

All new 3D gaming experiences – the new Wind 3D Armor

2D visuals are no more the only gaming way, MSI offers breakthrough technologies on 3D gaming experience is seen to be mainstream in future. Wind 3D Armor is designated for serious gamers to integrate 3D visuals, communication and sounds, all in one device. Wind 3D Armor featured with shutter glasses, wireless over-the–ear headphones and wireless signal transmission technology offer ultimate 3D audiovisual experience, enabling gamers to immerse themselves in the gaming field to battle baddies with remote teammates seamlessly in real time. The combine of shutter 3D image tech and wireless headphone system together present real 3D experiences and conveniences for gamers.   

Dual exclusive for double recognitions – 2 MSI unique products honored with “2010 Best Choice of COMMPUTEX” Awards

Good news came to MSI just before the opening of the show. COMPUTEX conducts the “Best Choice of COMPUTEX TAIPEI Award” voting contest in view to encourage new innovations from local ICT industries, and 2 MSI unique winning products are honored, namely the “Big Bang- Fusion” MB, which is first of the kind in the market to adopt Intel® platform and equipped with Fuzion technologies, THX TryStudio Pro audio effects and OC Genie design, all in all made it a distinctive product. And the “Telematics Box” Car PC provides multimedia patented technologies that are exclusively recognized by the judging panel.

World’s first stylish 3D AIO PC with elite military class MB and graphic cards

MSI displays a series of fashionable products in the COMPUTEX which represents the honor of Taiwan. In the notebooks area, highlights include MSI F & G series that featured with most outstanding performance and multimedia functions; for instance, one can find invincible audio effects from the G series that is equipped with Dynaudio, and the F series is

characterized by its sophisticate stylish and innovative design. Whereas in the AIO PCs area, visitors will be happy to find world’s first largest  24”120Hz LED panel touch screen PC – Wind Top AE2420 3D that built-in with MSI 3D Station^TM technology and matching with 3D Infinity shutter glasses to provide flawless 3D video experience. In particular, both MSI Big Bang-XPower MB with Fuzion technologies and the latest R5870 Lightning graphic cards are all hot items in the show. This year, MSI takes lead to promote military class MB and graphic cards components that features longer lifespan, reliability and stability when used in the toughest environment.

Apart from contributing in R&D over the years, MSI also works closely with world’s primary brands for breakthroughs technologies in 3D, tablet PC and Cloud computing products. MSI proves itself not only to offer innovative and stylish products, but to take the lead in challenging new technologies, which fits exactly the company’s motto to “Insist on the Best”, and its brand concept to be “Best in performance Ultimate in multimedia” for bringing a better world of better technology living.

MSI Proudly Unveils the X-Slim X360

MSI’s X-Slim X360, with the Intel Arrandale ULV processor, comes equipped with the Intel Core i5 processor with Intel’s Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading technology for excellent processing performance and up to 9 hours of battery life. Graced with MSI’s exclusive stylish rhombic pattern, the X360 is the apex in slim computer technology.
Taipei–The X360, the latest step in the evolution of MSI’s beautiful X-Slim series of notebooks, comes with the Intel Arrandale ULV processor to provide outstanding performance with a longer-lasting, more environmentally friendly battery. The X360 comes with the Intel Core i5 processor with Intel Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading technology. The Intel HM55 chipset gives the X360 high-quality audio/video performance and 9 hours of ultra-long battery life.
MSI Notebook Marketing Director Sam Chern points out that the X360 features the standard ultra-thin body and feather pattern lines common with the rest of the X-Slim series. Weighing only 1.4kg and less than 1-inch thick, the X360 boasts MSI’s own chic rhombic pattern and Color Film Print. The brilliant blending of the X360’s rhombic and diamond designs underscore the X-Slim X360’s distinctive style
 

 
Quality audio/video & processing capabilities, 9hours of battery life*
The latest Intel Core i5 processor: The first ultra-slim notebook to utilize Intel’s Arrandale ULV platform, the X-Slim X360 is equipped with the Intel Core i5 processor with Intel Turbo Boost, Hyper-Threading technology, and Intel’s HM55 chipset. The superior audio/video and processing performance enable the X360 to multitask, while ensuring smooth operation for the best performance anytime.
9 hours of battery life: In addition to quality audio/video performance and processing capabilities, MSI’s exclusive ECO power-saving technology allows you to select from among five power management levels—Game, Film, Presentation, Word Processing, and Turbo Battery. In addition, Intel’s Turbo Boost technology automatically adjusts power levels to provide the amount of power needed for various applications, while allocating resources necessary for operations to give the X360 9-hours of battery life.
*Actual battery time will differ depending on settings and how the computer is used.
 
The ultimate in elegant technology
Feathered lines: MSI incorporates master craftsmanship, the Color Film Print and rhombic pattern add a touch of sophistication and style. Tipping the scales at a mere 1.4kg and less than 1-inch thin, the X360 is the ultimate blend of fashion and technology.
Stylish rhombic pattern: MSI’s own rhombic pattern on the cover, the diamond pattern on the body, and MSI’s exclusive Color Film Print highlight the X360’s unparalleled good taste. What’s more, the silver trim, chrome-plated power button, LED status indicators, and touchpad edges combine with MSI’s unique Chiclet keyboard to offer a stylish blend of sophistication, style, and minimalism.
 
Exclusive software make life easier
MSI EasyViewer: The X360 comes equipped with several of MSI’s exclusive software programs to make your laptop smarter and more user friendly. The unique EasyViewer utilizes a 3D image display which allows you to choose zoom in/out, full screen display, or auto play to preview images. Slide mode lets you edit photos, enlarging or reducing them, rotating them gradually or by 90 degrees. HDII image enhancement, intelligent white balance, and image sharpness can by employed to make images richer and enhance contrast and layering.

MSI EasyFace: The X360 comes with Easy Face, MSI’s own face identification software, to protect information on your laptop. Simply take several photos of yourself with the X360’s webcam and register them in your laptop, then you can use Easyface Autolocker and Easyface Logon. The easy-to-use, high-end biometric identification system is the best safeguard for personal information on your laptop.
About MSI NOTEBOOK
MSI Notebook’s goal is to become the most trusted name in laptop computers. We stand by our principles of breakthroughs in design, the pursuit of excellence, and technological innovation as we have continued to raise the bar for ourselves and have accomplished a great deal of pioneering work in the industry. If you need more product information, please visit http://www.msi.com
 
X360 Specs
OSWindows 7 Home Premium
CPU Intel Core™ i5-520UM  processor
Chipset Intel HM55
Graphic Intel HD Graphic
Memory DDRIII SO-DIMM (Up to 4GB)
LCD 13” HD (Glare type) 1366×768
HDD 2.5“  250 /320/500 GB SATA
Card reader 2 in 1 (support SD/MMC)
I/O HDMI, D-sub, USB 2.0 x 2, Mic-in, Headphone out,  RJ-45
Battery 4 /8 cells battery pack
Wireless 802.11 b/g/draft n, Bluetooth V2.1EDR
Webcam 1.3M Webcam
Sound 2 Speakers
Dimension 324 mm (W) x 227 mm (D) x 6~22.5 mm
Weight ~1.4G (with 4-cell battery)

SiS9700 E-Reader SoC — Offers New Paperless Reading Experience
May 31st, Taipei– Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) today unveiled the first generation of E-Reader SoC, SiS9700 mainly integrating PDF/ePUB accelerator, the electrophoretic display controller, and the loading dependent frequency/voltage scalar to ultimately sustain up to15000 page flip/1500 mAh battery life. The SiS9700 can also be used in conjunction with the SiS9730 EM touch processor to equip friendly human interface for supporting versatile handwriting experience. SiS is committed to continue developing new innovative technologies to provide customers with even more competitive products while expanding its e-reader market and enhancing consumer reading experience.
The integrated PDF/ePUB accelerator in SiS9700 mainly comprises the AES/RC4/SHA1/MD5 security engine, the OpenVG scalable vector graphic, and the JPEG decoder, in an attempt to boost performance for deciphering, decoding and rendering the PDF and ePUB documents with minimum CPU processing time, and thereby to extremely reduce the power consumption. The Integrated eletrophoretic display controller utilizes the locality/parallelism refresh scheme to save power, and supports up to 16 levels grayscale waveform for up to 2048×1536@50Hz panel. The loading dependent frequency/voltage scalar actively gauges the system loading and dynamically adjusts the operating frequency and operating voltage of the processor and various H/W accelerators on the fly. Thus, when the user is reading a document, listening to music and downloading content at the same time, the SiS9700 will boost to the performance mode to deliver seamless user experience. When the user is just reading a document, the SiS9700 will automatically switch to energy-saving mode by reducing the operating frequency and voltage to extend the battery life and reduce the number of recharges.
Key differentiated functions integrated into the SiS9700 include the display timing controller for supporting variously dimensional panels, and audio codec with stereo speaker or headphone outputs for playing the music or text to speech, or with microphone input for voice recording. The associated front-end audio processing engine supports MP3 / WAV / WMA / AAC decoding, and audio effect synthesizing such as Volume, Balance, Mute, & EQ, … , etc. A variety of peripherals such as LPDDR controller, USB2.0 host/device controllers, SD/SDHC/MMC/SDIO/SPI/UART/I2C interface, NAND flash controller, and RTC, etc are also provided for WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G communications modules and other peripheral devices to enable mobile network connectivity for the user. The SiS9700 uses 15mm x 15mm LFBGA package technology.
“SiS will continue to invest in the research and development of innovative e-book technologies to provide our customers and users with better e-book products and a better user experience. Our target is the massive e-book market.” said Michael Chen, President at SiS. “Our R&D capability and innovative technologies will enable customers to master the mysteries of e- reader design and inject new life into the market.”

SiS9700 is slated to enter volume production in the third quarter of this year. Sample products will be demonstrated at COMPUTEX 2010 during June 1st to June 5th. You are cordially invited to visit the SiS booth at C621/C623 in the Taipei Computex Exhibition Hall 1 and to learn more about the trends in the e-book reader market.

Palit releases GeForce® GTX 465 Dual Fan + 4 Video output at Comptuex2010
Palit Microsystems Ltd, the leading graphics card manufacturer, announces the non-reference design Palit GTX 465, leveraging the same Fermi architecture found in GeForce GTX480/470, GeForce GTX465 is the newest performance option for Direct11 gaming.

Palit releases GeForce GTX465 Dual Fan+ 4 Video output at Computex 2010 and will be also available at Palit’s channels world widely.
Featuring Dual Fans and 4 Video outputs which support HDMI, DisplayPort, and two Dual-Link DVI display outputs.

The Palit cooler & quieter thermal solution is designed with more fans and fins in order to optimize the revolutionary Fermi architecture performances. The cooler & quieter thermal system features Dual Fan to get double air-flow, a heatsink made of a pure cooper base and heat pipes attached to aluminum fins to maximize cooling performance. The cooler consists of a PWM fan with optimized heatsink, giving it excellent thermal performance while making it an ideal cooling solution.

The GeForce GTX 465 is built upon the same great DX11 architecture as the GTX 480. It has 352 CUDA cores, 44 texture unites, 32 ROP unites and a 256-bit memory interface with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. It relies on the same GF100 chip used in GeForce GTX 480 and 470 GPUs. GTX 465 also provides gamers with core GeForce GTX features such as 3D Vision, PhysX and CUDA, which enhance the gaming experience. PC Gamers who upgrade to GeForce GTX465 will get great frame rates on the DX9 and DX10 games that are predominant today, and also be ready for the next generation of DirectX11 games of tomorrow that will be released over the next few years.

ASUS Gives Visitors a Look into Tomorrow at Computex 2010
Extends Lead in Cloud Computing and Gaming Arenas with Industry-changing
Eee Pad, Eee Tablet, Garmin-Asus A10 Smartphone and a Host of ROG Innovations

[Taiwan, Taipei, 31 May 2010] ASUS’ leadership in innovation and design will once again be underlined at this year’s Computex exhibition in Taipei, where the homegrown IT giant is set to showcase a wide range of products across five major categories: cloud computing, gaming, enthusiast PC components, multimedia and green computing.

ASUS Cloud Computing Solutions: Accessing Data Anywhere and in Real Time has Never Been this Easy

As the leader in cloud computing, ASUS offers the broadest spread of cloud-connected devices with on-the-fly data and multimedia sharing capabilities that consumers need in this age of interconnectedness.

Without question the foremost cloud computing device that will be on show at Computex 2010 is the ASUS Eee Tablet, one of the world’s most accurate and sensitive digital note-taking devices. Sporting a 2450 dpi resolution touch screen, a built-in camera which takes high resolution photos that users can write notes on, and preinstalled with an assortment of notepad templates, the Eee Tablet provides students and mobile business professionals with everything they need to get through a day. The Eee Tablet also serves as an exceptionally competent e-reader, offering almost lag-free page turns and a paper-like display that allows users to read for long periods without eye fatigue. The Eee Tablet features USB and MicroSD connectivity for easy syncing with a PC.

Also set to steal the limelight is the ASUS Eee Pad, an ultra-slim and light yet high-performance slate device designed to provide users with a “real time, real life and real human” cloud computing experience. The Eee Pad is available in two configurations. The 12” Eee Pad EP121 is a full-featured slate computer that serves as a multimedia player, e-reader, compact PC and Internet device. Powered by a CULV Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor and the Windows® 7 Home Premium operating system, it handles multitasking effortlessly, enabling users to check their email and calendars, have video conferences, and process Microsoft Word and Excel documents simultaneously. The Eee Pad EP121 offers two convenient modes of character input—an embedded virtual keyboard and a special docking station-cum-keyboard—and delivers more than 10 hours of smooth, continuous computing. Users seeking added mobility can consider the 10’’ Eee Pad EP101TC, which comes in at a mere 675g and a slim, pocket-friendly 12.2mm. The Eee Pad EP101TC runs on Windows Embedded Compact 7, a complete toolkit with the latest Windows 7-based technologies and tools that create engaging user experiences and delivers connectivity to the Windows world. It provides a familiar full-featured experience across various connected devices and cloud computing services. Users will also be able to move their favorite applications to the main desktop with ease.

If you own an ASUS Rampage III Extreme, you can now expand it’s capability to run 4 way SLI on this board. This is made possible with the new adaptor board – the ASUS ROG Xpander.

The ASUS ROG Xpander sits on top of the Rampage III Extreme mainboard. The Xpander comes with a fan and is hooked up to the mainboard via 2 golden fingers (as seen in diagram below).

The Xpander uses 2 x NVIDIA NF200 chipset, doubling the amount of lanes via lane switching to support 4 way SLI.

This product will be showcased at Computex Taipei 2010.

You will probably get to see this board at the ASUSTEK Booth at Computex Taipei 2010 coming Tuesday. This board, ASUS ROG Rampage III GENE is a board that provide maximum performance in a small form factor. This board is based on the Intel X58 chipset and it supports the Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition. It also comes with a SuperemeFX X-Fi 2 audio for die hard gamers.

ON board you will see a tri channel 6 DIMM slots, two full length PCIe 2.0x 16 slots for CF/SLI support.

Kingston demonstrates HyperX 2544Mhz the fastest DDR3 memory

This new memory module is dual channel memory model KHHX2544C9D3T1FK2/2GX CAS 9-10-9 at 1.65v running on the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P mainboard with Intel Core i7 860S (2.53GHz).

The year 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of Computex Taipei which has become the largest computer exhibition in Asia and the second largest in the world. As usual, OCWorkbench will bring you highlights of the show “live” for our readers. This year, our report will be on our main news page, forums, twitter and facebook. Chinese readers can also check out our Chinese forums and mainpage for the relevant updates.

As usual, the main focus this year would still falls onto the mainboard manufacturers and peripherals.The probably newest thing would be the upcoming Intel chipsets, handheld device and slim notebooks. In this Day 0 Coverage, we will take a glimpse of what to expect from some of these big players in the market in the next few pages.

For those of you who likes smaller form factor Android phones, the Xperia X10 mini is definitely worth considering. It has almost all the features of it’s bigger brother the Xperia X10 less the mediascape. It also comes with Android 1.6 which is scheduled for an update to 2.1 in the 2nd half of this year. The Xperia X10 mini retails for HKD 2480 and there is also news that the other sibling Xperia X10 mini pro will also arrive in early June.

You can take a look at the specifications and videos of the Xperia X10 mini and Xperia X10 mini pro here.

MSI Displays the World’s First “3DMark 11” Demo
Live DEMO in MSI Big Bang Area at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010

 
The world-leading graphics card and motherboard manufacturer MSI and the leading global graphics card benchmark developer FutureMark, will publicly display the world’s first “3DMark 11” demo in Big Bang Area of the MSI Booth (No.L607) in Nangang Exhibition Hall during COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010. The flagship product of ATI Radeon HD 5000 series cards that support DirectX 11 – R5870 Lightning and six core processors optimization motherboard – Big Bang-XPower will be used as the demo platform to show the amazing visual performance and astonishing image quality!
 
The Next-Gen 3D Performance Benchmark – 3DMark 11
The world-leading benchmark developer FutureMark has been releasing 3DMark series benchmarks for more than 10 years. It is a most widely used performance benchmark of graphics card. Since 1998 to the present, it has an online database of 35 million submits and is a really popular benchmark. Furthermore, 3DMark series is not just a system performance evaluation tool but also becomes a new way for gamers to understand new technologies.
 
MSI R5000 and N400 series graphics cards fully support DirectX 11 technology
Because DirectX 11 becomes a must-have technology for the next generation games, MSI’s R5000 and N400 series graphics cards with ATI Radeon HD 5000 series or NVIDA GeForce 400 series GPU, all fully support this brand new technology. Whether you want to run games or related applications that use DirectX 11 technology, MSI graphics cards can easily show the most powerful 3D performance and the most impressive image quality. This time, MSI, as the motherboard and graphics card’s exclusive partner of FutureMark, will have the world’s first public demo of 3DMark 11.
The R5870 Lightning is the flagship product of ATI Radeon HD 5000 series cards that support DirectX 11, and the Big Bang-XPower is the six-core-processors optimized motherboard will be used as the demo platform. It not only allows consumers to experience how stunning and beautiful the DirectX 11 games will be, but also perfectly shows strong performance of MSI mainboards and graphic cards. If you want to know more about 3DMark 11 or the latest MSI graphics cards that support DirectX 11, welcome to visit MSI Booth (No.L607) in Nangang Exhibition Hall during COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010.

Singapore is the first in the world to get the Samsung Galaxy S but somehow the phone has caught on with a wrong kind of media presence in Singapore. Singtel has manage to bundled the phone with Super Junior Concert tickets that had lead to Super Junior fans to speculate on buying the phone just to get the tickets and also bidding war looms on both the Samsung Mobile Singapore Facebook pages and also local forums for the concert tickets.

Singtel Press Release :

Singapore, May 27, 2010 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, announced that the hotly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S (Model: GT-I9000) smartphone will be available to SingTel Group customers from 4 June 2010. SingTel will be the first in the world to introduce Galaxy S in Singapore, followed by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Optus, and regional associates, AIS, Globe and Telkomsel.

“Being the first operator globally to introduce the breakthrough Samsung Galaxy S is a landmark as it puts SingTel customers ahead of the world. With a combined regional mobile customer base of 293 million, SingTel can leverage that buying power to secure the latest in handset and service innovations. SingTel’s collaboration with Samsung to introduce this breakthrough device signifies its commitment to be a multimedia solutions company as well as its commitment to bring latest device and best mobile experience to its customers.

“Samsung, the world’s largest TV manufacturer brings its innovative multimedia expertise to this mobile phone. Our customers will be the envy in the market, being the first to enjoy this powerful Android 2.1 multimedia smartphone with an ultra-responsive SUPER AMOLED screen. Our value-packed Galaxy 3G price plans at launch offer our customers additional talk time, live MobileTV viewing and unlimited music downloads from the award-winning AMPed music service for an enhanced multimedia mobile experience,” said Mr Yuen Kuan Moon, Executive Vice President, Consumer Group, SingTel.

According to ChinaSmack :
Today marks the darkest day of Foxconn. 2 more workers has jumped leading to a media frenzy outside Foxconn Longhua C4 Building. This has increase the total to 15 person who has taken their precious life this year.

Many people are speculating that these suicide is all about compensation money for the deceased family. There are also other allegations that Foxconn is abusing their employer rights as rumors of staffs working well over 80 hours of overtime. Foxconn also appears to have a “privilege status” where  reports of abuse on reporters goes unanswered by the Police force. Wikipedia has a variety of detailed criticism on the ongoing issues.

Currently, another employee of Foxconn (16th) was found standing  over the ledge and we do hope he will not fall into the spiraling list of suicide jumpers.

[Latest Update 1]   Heavy Censorship arise in China’s Baidu forum. Source : Shanghaiist

The ongoing media coverage of the Foxconn suicide has lead to a full censorship over at Baidu famous forum “TIEBA”.  Media coverage of suicide stopped at No 12.

[Latest Update 2]   Foxconn website hacked. Source : Shanghaiist

The page has been pulled http://hr.foxconn.com/1.html but Shanghaiist manage to get a screen shot and did a translation.

Foxconn — We’re Hiring

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Be the kickass twelfth jumper. You can do it.

Hiring hotline: 514514514

By: Xiaokai

Sick of your power hungry MAC OS and WIN OS on your netbook?
Meego has gone live. Check it out!

Netbook tested to work with Meego 1.0: -

• Asus EeePC 901, 1000H, 1005HA, 1008HA, EeePC 1005PE, Eeetop ET1602
• Dell mini10v, Inspiron Mini 1012
• Acer Aspire One D250, AO532-21S, Revo GN40, Aspire 5740-6025
• Lenovo S10
• MSI U130, AE1900
• HP mini 210-1044
• Toshiba NB302

Download Meego 1.0

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StarHub makes available Singapore’s first microSIM card with its mobile broadband service

Singapore, 27 May 2010 – StarHub today announced that it has fully tested the compatibility of the microSIM card with its mobile broadband service, and is making available the product to support any future mobile devices that use such SIM card format.

“As device makers seek to build slimmer and more compact wireless devices, the usage of microSIM card is expected to become popular in the future. StarHub wants to be ready today to support this anticipated trend,” said Mr Chan Kin Hung, StarHub’s Head of Products and Solutions. “StarHub has extensively tested the compatibility of the microSIM card for the connection to its industry-leading mobile broadband network, and are excited to make available the product to our customers who constantly demand the best technologies and services that support the latest mobile devices.”

The microSIM card today features a special dual usage design. It can be used as a normal SIM card for an existing mobile device. To fit it in a device made for the MicroSIM card format, the customer simply snaps out the “