Computex 2004 coverage

OUR STAFF ENDURED the halls, the alleyways and the booths in Old Taipei to bring you takes of the unexpected and the expected at Computex 2004. Here's what we wrote and what we didn't write from Taiwan last week. The colour pieces remain to be written, some of our poor staff are still straggling home, and we wave goodbye to Old Taipei again. µ

Portable DVD player, reader wins gong at Computex
Great Ball of China snags INQ hacks
Military Centrino notebook gets watered daily sprouter, laptop scorcher
Intel Noconas previewed at Taiwan show

AGP will live for the next 12 to 18 months
Hen Hsun claims Nvidia's core cheaper than ATI's
ATI axiomatic: Claims 90 per cent of PCI-E wins
Nvidia claims lower power consumption

Taiwanese band plays Internationale to foreign press
AMD pushes mobo makers to intro eight way systems
Intel LGA-755 screwed after 20 insertions
All notebooks are exactly the same, almost

Big problems hit Intel Prescott based notebooks
Embedded Wi-Fi is the future
Seven Nvidia phones and some liquorice allsorts debut
Taiwanese telecoms firms to compensate data theft victims

Corsair shows off fast gaming memories
Taitra claims big boost in buyer figures
Car MP3 jukebox gives your ears a musical massage
AMD's Meyer, Morris beat the Via drum

Bvidia's C8K-04 captured in living hues
Nvidia MXM pictured
Some sundry motherboards from ECS in pix
ECS readies Grantsdale board that breaks every Intel rule

More mobile phone card wars
Device promises Radar Love as you drive
Nvidia "x-rayed our ATI chips"
What Wall Street's money men really want to know

BTX about as popular as SARS in Taiwan
ATI and Nvidia face torrent of customer complaints
ATI's power supply enigma only a partial mystery
Via rules the K8 market

SD cards store up rights problems
Iwill breaches its own eight way Opteron NDA
ECS shows off Intel Sonoma and AMD Duron notebooks
LCOS TV images offer bright future

Taiwan spends small fortune on arms, to counter Chinese "threat"
Taiwan wi-fi spots everywhere and nowhere baby
Small earthquake hits Taipei
Tyan, AMD, Broadcom toast four way Opteron systems

Shuttle claims it's licked Prescott problems
NV45 is an NV40 with an HSI bridge chip
Swaggering AMD brands Intel "disruptive"
ATI to switch to 90 nanometres in 2005

Nvidia's new driver arrives tomorrow
Hello, hello is that really a Moto?
Intel considers bundling plastic air ducts with processors
Hercules unchained lays into Nvidia

SIS shows off 754-939 pin motherboard
Nokia wrong-footed in phone memory
CyberLink PowerCinema 4 on its way
AMD wants to woo China with 64 bits

AMD notebook wins still weak and woeful
PowerColor has X800XT PCI-E without power plug
AMD's Meyer says Athlon 64 FX chips not expensive
Biostar readies IDEQ 300 Small Form Factor PCs

Intel BTX chassis designs cause fury from partners
China bans mainlanders from attending Computex
Benq shows iB3G handset
ATI PCI Express graphics card spotted

The half a million dollar gaming man
Thermaltake - enough toys to choke a gift horse
Foxconn gets even more serious about motherboards
Asusbox similarity to Alienware box staggering

Modified Xboxes all Linux ready
Pocket PCs outdo Smartphones in hardware terms
Twenty per cent of Intel returns have bent CPU pins
Asus toys full of Far Eastern promise

Coolmaster products and our disco take
AMD and Broadcom Serverworks chipset looms
Iwill bares soul in blast of dual Opteron servers
Taiwan urged to prepare two pronged attack on digital home

FICkle finger points at BTX and SFF boxes
ATI to launch X800XT PCI-E today
ECS makes AGP/PCI-E Grantsdale P motherboard
GPS highly popular@Computex

Computex press room hit by Microsoft worm
Asus deep fat fryer challenges Epox' waffles
AG Neovo draws prettier TFT picture
Keypad for PDA fanatics gets thumbs up

AMD releases 939 pin Athlon FXs
Intel Prescott CPU heatsinks the size of small elephants
Hitachi water cooling kit achieves extraordinary results
Benq talks serious balls in Old Taipei

Mitac intros PDAs for cars
Vendors dash to finish Computex show
Tyan takes Intel shilling
Lightning strikes INQ in Old Taipei

Lian-Li makes case for looking good
Dothan piles the heat on Prescott
Zalman quietens down the cooling stakes
AMD Opteron balloon "not for hammering passing Intel fanboyz"

Mighty Intel shows off many speakers
Nvidia shows its true colours