CES 2007: Dear Diary…iRiver’s CLIX2, Shuttle’s X200, Antec’s Cases And Mini Hamburgers
- January 17th, 2007
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 and promises 25 hours of music playback on a single charge. And while it was developed in cooperation with Microsoft, you can change a setting in the menus to make it work with any OS. Below is some video of the player.
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The reps showed off a few more products (the B20, UNIT2 and W10), but they had no timetable for launches in North America, if at all. I did take a couple shots of the W10 since that seemed most likely to show up more sooner than later. It’s a touchscreen portable media player with a positioning system that uses its built-in Wi-Fi adapter.
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What good is that? Ever been in a strange city and want to find a restaurant/movie theater/ATM? All you need is a hotspot and you’re set. And with more and more hotels putting in free access in lobbies and business centers…
My last “meeting” meeting of the day is with Antec. They’ve added a black version of their media-center Fusion case along with a smaller version (pictured) to the lineup. The P180 case was updated to the P182, adding an external fan control, holes for water pipes for external coolers, some cable management and it’s all in a special titanium-color finish. The extended-ATX P190 case builds on the P182 with two top-mounted 140mm fans, one side-mounted 200mm fan and dual power supplies totaling up to 1,200 watts.
 from the X100’s ATI Mobility Radeon X1400. Disappointing, but not a make-or-break deal. I’m currently testing the X200, so I’ll have to keep you posted.
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Fans underneath pull hot air up and out the sides of the Cooler, so the heat of the bottom component doesn’t reach the one on top. The fans are big enough and spin slow enough so they’re near silent when operating. The aluminum top stays cool, too. The hard drive enclosure below works, in general, the same way.
Like the night before, there’s a multi-vendor event called ShowStoppers. I had grand plans of hitting several of the companies on the floor to talk to them about whatever they were hawking. It didn’t happen. I had talked myself into a stupor by the end of the day and by the time I got to the event at 6:30 p.m., I just wanted to chill, eat mini hamburgers, drink and watch the OSU game. (I guess I would’ve been better off talking to the vendors.) I did talk to one company, Siber Systems, makers of RoboForm. If you have a Windows PC and you’re not using RoboForm, you’re missing out. Aside from being the best password manager and form filler available, they recently added the ability to create your own search engines in the toolbar for whatever site you want. Takes less than a minute.
