CES 2005: Chipsets, Motherboards, and Memory

Final Thoughts

CES has come and gone, and along the way, some 140,000 people walked the CES Halls during the event. For the gadget geek, this show was an amazing resource, even if it wasn't quite as satisfying for Computer enthusiasts. Next year, CES promises to be even more massive, with additional halls that try to capture some of what was lost with Comdex. CES is already a strain on Vegas transportation, so a more massive CES is not a pleasant thought when you consider how to get from point A to Point B.

Computex is still the show that most excites us computer types, but CES this year was filled with lots of promise for the future. If most of the companies exhibiting at CES could just figure out how to really spin "convergence" to truly include intelligence (computer technology), CES might emerge as a premier event in the Computer Press calendar. For now, CES provided a few bright flashes, but we are still looking to Computex-June-Taiwan for the sizzle.