Got an e-mail last night when I was sleeping from Albatron and it seems they sent out pictures of the Albatron 9800GX2-1GX since they will be on Display this week at CeBIT. Albatron didn't have anything else to add, so enjoy the pictures!

Because NVIDIA 9800GX2 products are being allowed to be displayed at CeBIT 2008, we are distributing pictures of the Albatron 9800GX2-1GX for your reference. However, the launch date is not officially until later this month and so we are not able to deliver news releases and specifications at this time. Please stay tuned.

During a recent trip to visit ATI we got a chance to see numerous AMD 780G motherboards and while we are finishing up our 780G review this should hold you over. With the 780G and SB700 chipsets motherboard manufacturers can come up with some interesting designs and today we will be showing you what ASUS, ECS, Foxconn, Gigabyte, MSI, J&W and Jetway have developed.

OCZ Technology Group just announced the that the Neural Impulse Actuator (NIA) has begun mass production and that a launch into the channel is imminent. A prototype was debuted last year at CeBIT 2007 which generated a newfound excitement in the global gaming community. The final version of the NIA uses a sleek metal housing, a USB 2.0 interface, and streamlined headband with carbon dry interface sensors. Legit Reviews has seen the OCZ Neural Impule Actuator a couple of times while attendingat CES 2008 and CEBIT 2007.

Advances in hardware and software allow todays games to offer consumers an exceptional entertainment experience, and we wanted to take the next step by immersing gamers into these environments with the innovative new NIA, stated Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. The NIA radically changes the ways that gamers can interact and control elements within games, and can be configured in a matter of minutes for any game that is already published or will be released.

ASE Labs reviews the VIA EPIA-SN1800! Find this and other reviews by visiting our forums!

” The EPIA series from VIA has really come a long way since its initial inception years ago. When the series was first released, it was a unique formfactor. The problem is that it was slow and the expandability was not there. Fast forward a few years and the later designs are nothing like what it was. You get speed and expandability in a great size. If Windows is your thing, this board is Vista certified. “

The Intel Atom processor will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year. Together, these new market segments represent a significant new opportunity to grow the overall market for Intel silicon, using the Intel Atom processor as the foundation. The company also announced the Intel Centrino Atom processor technology brand for MID platforms, consisting of multiple chips that enable the best Internet experience in a pocketable device.

The Intel Atom processor is based on a new microarchitecture designed for small devices and low power consumption, Intel said. The chip is less than 25 square millimeters, and 11 of the chip's dies — the slivers of silicon with 47 million transistors each — would fit in an area the size of a U.S. penny. The new chips, previously code-named Silverthorne and Diamondville, are made on Intel's 45 nanometer chipmaking technology and slated for introduction toward the middle of this year.

Acer, the world's third largest PC vendor, has signed an agreement to buy handheld device maker E-Ten Information Systems of Taiwan. The acquisition will put Acer in the position to market and further develop a range of handheld devices, including smartphones and GPS devices.

E-Ten has developed and sold several smartphone models over the past several years, including its Windows Mobile 6.0-based Glofish smartphone with GPS (global positioning system), in addition to other handheld electronic devices such as GPS devices and pocket PCs. The deal is an all-stock transaction valued at NT$9 billion (US$291.3 million). Acer is offering to exchange one share of its stock for every 1.07 shares of outstanding E-Ten stock to pay for the deal.

Dell will let the entry-level segment of its consumer-based Inspiron and enterprise-based Vostro notebooks tackle the low-cost PC market, according to Stephen Felice, president of Dell's operations in Asia Pacific and Japan. As for products like the Eee PC, Felice thinks Dell will likely deliver a few similar solutions, but the company has not yet decided upon its strategy.

Dell expects its performance in Asia Pacific markets including Japan will maintain double digit growth in 2008. The company is preparing to launch twice the amount of notebook products it did in 2007. Additionally the company will switch from its previous global launch strategy, and begin launching products tailored for each local market, noted Felice. The current sales ratio between notebook and desktop PCs in Asia Pacific markets is 1:3, while in all other markets it is already even, indicating that there is potential in the Asia Pacific for low-cost notebook products.

Microsoft Corp, faced with Web rivals looking to poach its business customers, said on Sunday it plans to broaden the availability of its online services for e-mail and collaboration software.

Last year, Microsoft started subscription-based online services to run its Exchange corporate e-mail program and SharePoint collaboration software on Microsoft's own computer systems as an alternative to customers buying their own hardware to run licensed software.

Microsoft initially limited those services to companies with more than 5,000 workers, but the company said it will now offer the service to businesses of all sizes in the second half of 2008, after a testing period. The company did not disclose how much it will charge customers for the services.

Cutting-edge technology is coming home with the Alienware High Definition Media Server. With wireless high definition media streaming, full digital home automation readiness, 4 terabytes of hot swappable hard disk drive content storage, and Blu-ray high definition movies, your house just got a whole lot smarter. Read on to see what a $7,000 HD media server looks like!

We've had ATI CrossFireX running the past couple days here at Legit Reviews and while the drivers are not public yet, things are looking very good from what we have seen. We have slapped together a Radeon HD 3870 X2 with a Radeon HD 3870, which in turn creates a Triple CrossFireX platform with just two x16 PCI Express slots. Read on to see what CrossFireX is all about!