The Samsung MBP200 Pico Projector was one of the many gadgets shown at CES 2009. It’s a personal media player, and a projector that is perfect for business meetings, or when you are traveling, and want to watch movies as you go (the movie just needs an omnia). It should be coming to market in 2009 (no info as to the pricepoint). It also connects to a laptop, and mobile phones. It has a sliding panel for the projector. According to sources, it should support up to 16G SD card (with 256 MEG internal memory). Looks really promising, and should be alot of fun to use.
The Windows 7 beta version was displayed for all to see at this past CES 2009. I’m not sure if it will live up to the hype, but so far the faster response time when you open your laptop looks promising. I know that with Windows Vista, Microsoft was focusing primarily on the bells and whistles that would come with it. Unfortunately for consumers, those bells and whistles came at a high price in the form of memory usage. This meant that as you added more programs (which is why you buy a computer in the first place), the worse things got with the performance of Windows Vista. This time around, it seems that developers for Windows 7 have designed its function based around how people actually use their computers. I know I like having several windows open at one time. Windows 7 seems to be able to handle that pretty well. Also, being able to move between them on the task bar would be really great as well. Also, if you hover in the lower right, it lets you clear the cluter on your desktop, and makes it easier to see through different documents. They’ve also added several other features which are interesting, and would prove very useful, IF (and I do mean if) , Windows 7 actually lives up to what it says it will do. Sadly, only time will tell (and if they mess this up again, I don’t think I’m willing to give Microsoft another chance to redeem themselves).
