A night in San Francisco, a day at IDF

posted by Kevin Haley on August 20, 2008

I am from California but I didn’t know San Francisco has a subway, it does and we took it to dinner last night. It’s clean and fast but just to welcome us to the city a man with a sleeping bag around him screamed at us. No words just screaming. Harmless enough but probably not cleared by the chamber of commerce. Dinner, as all dinners in San Francisco, was great so no harm no foul.

I did get to work during the day, I’m responsible for the Mobility Pavilion in the technology showcase. Since I am fighting last minute fires I don’t make it to the keynotes, you’ll have to read someone else’s blog for that. The Showcase has been packed and there are people at our mobility demos most all the time. The range of mobile systems we have is a testament to the Expanding Frontiers of Mobility (shameless plug for our theme). That ultra PC I referred to in my last blog I should have called an Extreme PC, it uses our Core 2 Extreme processor and some have a quad core. We are also showing utilities to facilitate overclocking, pushing the system performance higher than anyone but a gamer would want to. The concept PC I hinted at is called UrbanMax. It starts out looking like a large cell phone with an edge-to-edge flat touch screen. It then slides to reveal a keyboard and the screen tilts up to a laptop-like configuration. There are reports and pictures from un-biased third parties, search Intel UrbanMax and check them out. We have had a few film crews through the Mobility area so you can also watch for professional reports from the usual suspects.

One more thing, there is a real live snake in one of our demos. If you are here at IDF come by and see if you can find it.

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