The CES in Las Vegas has just finished and the Xbox has finally been officially unveiled by Bill Gates and friends. The console was revealed after a lenghty keynote speech by Gates himself, in which he mentioned vaguely that the Xbox is still scheduled for late this year in the US, although he did not mention a specific price range.

... the world's first notebook computer made of 99.5% pure grade CP1 (meaning commercially pure) titanium.

Oh yes!, and one of these too ;-)

Phil Shiller even showed up for the obligatory Pentium showdown: this time, a 733MHz G4 cranked out the Photoshop test 33% faster than a 1.5GHz P4. A little math turns Apple's MHz gap into a 500MHz surplus, as the 733MHz actually performs at a 2GHz level. If you hadn't guessed, that power to burn slogan includes CD, DVD, and Pentiums.

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