Let's not talk CES 2008

THE WORLD doesn’t stop turning on account of CES 2008, and no matter how good the goodies (pardon the French), there’s plenty of hardware bobbing up and down on the world wide wibble.

Take for example this one from TrustedReviews. They played around with a Panasonic Toughbook (CF-Y7), a fave in Nippon that seems to be getting some exposure in the UK. It’s durable, liquid-resistant and has "just" six-and-a-half hours of battery life (under MobileMark). Yours for the modicum of €1679.

Extremetech has some big screen action for you in the form of a Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP-HC 30-inch LCD screen. It’s all about being ready for the next generation of graphics interfaces, in big screen. We wouldn’t mind having one of those at home, mind you. Apparently it’s a blast to have, plugged in to your PC, but there’s some less-than-average results when plugging in low-def video sources.

The very legit reviews at Legit Reviews have bunged together a look at some DDR3 1800MHz parts of the 2GB species. Remember, these are the highest-end of enthusiast memory for PC platforms, and expect to pay through your proboscis for these parts. Like they say, 2GB of DDR-2 800MHz will cost you below $50 after rebate, but 2GB of these blighters will set you back on average $500. Wobble your way here.

XBitters try to jack-hammer some common sense into users by reviewing a perfectly sensible (ie: cheap) mobo based on a P35 chipset from Intel. Gigabyte (yes, them again. We stopped counting at the 55th Gigabyte mobo review) has unleashed upon the budgeteers of this world its GA-P35-DS3L kit which will provide users with easy OC’ing at a sub-$100 price tag.

While everyone was dreaming of electronic bounty in the pre-CES2008 crepuscule, Jarred at Anandtech was weaving his web of computing wisdom by give the WidowPC Sting 517D2 a once-over. Now, this is a built-to-order laptop with a pretty powerful graphics engine: a GeForce 8800M GTX, none other - the rest is scenery. We’re sure you can’t wait to shoot up that poison that’s over there.

German volk at the Hotcases.de have tested the Xigmatek NPR-MC651. It’s a power supply in case you were wondering. It’s also rated at 650W in case you were still wondering. It’s modular and the cables will fit your bit tower-format box. The chaps at Hotcases suggest this’ll make a very decent Quad-SLI unit. You can read all about it here (or hier in Englisch)

Another German hardware site– Hardware-experten.de (English-ish)- is reviewing some Mushkin kit – the XP2-8500 DDR2 1066MHz 2x1GB kit. This " Enhanced" Mushkin kit appears to have impressed the reviewers – it is quite expensive for DDR2, but they think it’s some of the best memory they’ve tested. µ