I just spent about 30 minutes playing with a MacBook Air at MacWorld 2008. The MacBook Air is impressively thin, but Apple's asking users to make too many trade offs. Check out the quick video walk-through and photos below. 
Apple just announced the Airport Extreme router with a choice of either a 500GB or 1TB drive that can be used to backup with Time Machine. Very cool, but the $499 price tag for the 1GB version is tough to swallow. You can also plug in USB drives to the router for more storage capacity. I wonder if Apple will have some kind of patch that will let us backup with Time Machine on last year's Airport Extreme model. 
Lenovo's introduced the IdeaPad notebook series at CES 2008. I talked to Craig Merrigan, Lenovo's VP of consumer marketing, about the new line of consumer notebooks. The company is very late to the consumer notebook table, and faces several challenges. 
Mark Batliner sat down with Notebooks.com to talk about SkinIt's customizeable service and how customers are changing the look of their gadgets more often than their underwear...err almost. With more than 2,500 designs ready to go and a new online design studio, it's easier than ever to make your notebook stand out from the crowd. 
Sony didn't have any brand spanking new notebooks for us at CES 2008, but they did have some impressively spec'd TZ, SZ, FZ and AR series VAIO notebooks on hand. We stopped by the Sony booth at CES 2008 to take a closer look. 
Here's a quick demo of Motorola's ROKR E8, which was announced at CES 2008. The ROKR E8 uses 'morphing' technology to switch its user interface between phone, music and camera modes. The slick glass plate display features haptic touch, which means it vibrates to simulate the experience of touching a physical keypad. 
Don't want to lay down the cash for a waterproof camera or housing? DiCaPac makes simple, flexible housing for digital cameras, SLRs, cell phones & other gadgets for around $35! 
I caught up with Phil McKinney, HP's Chief Technology Officer for Personal Systems Group, at CES 2008 and we talked about what he's carrying these days. He uses an iPaq 610 with Windows Mobile and a Compaq 2710p, with an integrated 3G wireless broadband card. 
We have the perfect notebook for you if you've got a World of Warcraft addiction and about $6,000 to blow. Eric Reichly, Dell's gaming program evangelist is one of the most enthusiastic guys I've met at CES and the ladies love him and the machine he helped build. 
The tiny Creative Stone (1GB or 2GB) and Stone Plus (2GB or 4GB) include a built-in speaker, that's just loud enough to kinda-sorta enjoy your music without headphones. Both models have a FM receiver and can record audio. The Creative Stone Plus has a display so you can navigate through your music collection. 
Jamie talked to Brent from LG about the company's Mobile Portable Handheld (MPH) standard at CES 2008. TV broadcasts on everything from notebooks to GPS units by the middle of 2009. 
Last night I headed over to the BlogHaus (a suite at the Bellagio hotel that's set up with everything a blogger could possibly need to blog to the wee hours of the morning) and snapped this picture of a bunch of bloggers unanimously working on MacBooks and MacBook Pros. 
Natalie from Motorola shows off the Moto Pure H12 bluetooth headset with Crystal Talk at CES 2008. Crystal Talk is a noise-reduction technology that makes it easier to hear calls in a noisy environment. The Pure H12 won a CES 2008 Innovations Award. 
Fujitsu introduced a 2.5-inch external hard disk drive, which has a very creative name: "The Fujitsu External Hard Disk Drive." The 300GB/4200RPM costs $229 and a 120GB/5400RPM version costs $129. 
Lenovo's VeriFace Recognition let's you use your face as your password. Instead of typing in your password, the Lenovo IdeaPad's webcam detects your face and automatically logs you into your account. Matt Kohut says this system is secure and is tough to trick. Check out the video demo below. 
Here's a demo of the just-announced Lenovo IdeaPad U110 with Matt Kohut. The IdeaPad is built for consumers, and is a clear departure from the company's flagship ThinkPad series. 
Fujitsu introduced two computers with AT&T's HSDPA built-in today and I got a chance to play with them. I pointed the U810 to speedtest.net and was blown away by its upload speed. The speed test starts off slow on the download portion, but the upload speed shoots to 3697 kb/s! I've been struggling to get 10% of that speed using my Sprint EVDO cards.