Computex coverage roundup

With any luck Day 3 will go live around the same time tomorrow which will also finish off my official meeting schedule leaving more time to build up the Booth Babe gallery.

Last year we brought you coverage of Computex and Shuttle's offering of a unified laptop standard where interchangeable components meant an almost limitless upgrade potential for your shuttle computer. This year Shuttle's focus has changed like many manufacturers to the tablet market. We won't mention names as we have been asked not to but if you are in the USA and have visited a Best Buy or CompUSA then its likely you have seen Shuttle's Tablets already. That's right Shuttle Tablets are marketed internationally under other brands.

We're very excited to share with you and your readers our exclusive breaking coverage of Windows 8 @ Microsoft Partner Preview (W Hotel Taipei). The event revealed radical user interface changes and convergence across all platforms including ARM.

AMD unveiled Fusion Products at their Computex Taipei 2011 Press Conference held at 14F, Kelti Tower, #105, Song Ren Road, Xinyi District, Taipei. Read more for photos, presentation slides and the video coverage.

It was only a matter of time before this happened: PowerColor has shoehorned two HD 6970s onto a single PCB (ridiculously large heatsink included). Also on show was a more reasonably sized HD 6870 X2. Look inside for pictures and specifications. (Updated with HD 6870 X2 pricing)

Noctua Booth @ Nangang Exhibiton Hall, 1F, Booth I0022 • 120mm Focused Flow™ Fan • Mounting-Kit for Upcoming Intel LGA2011 Socket (Prototype) • Low-Profile Dual Fan Cooler • Top-of-the-Range Triple Stack Cooler (Prototype) • Top-of-the-Range Downdraft Cooler (Prototype) • New 140mm D-Type Cooler (Prototype)

In it we see that they will launch JMF66x (SATA III, R500/W400MB/s, 8 channel) and JMF605 (SATA II, R160/W130MB/s, 4 Channel) in Q4 2011, JMF62x (HDD Accelerator, 4CH) and JMF606 (SATA II, 4 channel, 40k read and 10k write IOPS) in Q1 2012

Another interesting concept from the ASUS ROG press conference is the ROG CG8565 Gaming System, a watercooled gaming desktop PC that poses a challenge to the Alienware PCs as well as other customed gaming PCs system builders. It has a stealth fighter-inspired design with its angular, matte black exterior. It is packed with Intel Core i7-2600K processor, Z68 chipset, GeForce GTX 590 graphics card, ASUS Xonar soundcard as well as a slew of OC features such as a one-touch 'Level Up' button that auto-overclocked your gaming PC instantly.