Monday, November 26, 2018

SITEX 2018

Like last year's SITEX, this year's has a few differences that are and aren't even IT related such as the retro-gaming area organized by Retro DNA which happens to have tons of retro game collection in their possession including the less popular consoles such as Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and Neo Geo AES which happened to be there by luck. How did they buy those consoles like it's beyond me? Not to mention that Retro DNA is the local gaming community that started 5 years ago and its gaming venue is located somewhere in Bishan Park. Unfortunately, its official website has a joke implementation so many of the links may bring you to the same home page of the site. Strange thing is that, Retro DNA opens doors in Friday and Saturday from 7PM-1AM and 5PM-2AM respectively but it's not open for the other days?
There were other booths like the Google booth, the ones that sold HDDs including the NAS devices, the ones that sold and promote the Android Set-Top-Boxes although I had seen a familiar UI due to the fact that I used one on my Android Set-Top-Box at the time. For desktop PCs, the HDDs are normally 3.5" with laptop PCs having 2.5". Some kind of cables are needed for connection when it comes to internal HDDs for desktop PCs but for the NAS, there are caddies to place the HDDs in and then insert them. Some booths sold the external HDDs while the others sold the internal ones. There were even booths that sold the projectors.
At the Samsung booth, there was a tablet device that has its own Samsung Dex in which having an external monitor isn't needed. It might be a strange move at first but for business use like typing in business documents with the detachable physical keyboard, the feature might make sense as a cost effective alternative to needing the external monitor, external keyboard and mouse for that same technology. There was also a tablet that has its own Game Launcher or something that is like a Game Mode where you can play games on it without any interruption.