Two interesting twists happened today. First, CES organizers express dissatisfication with Las Vegas as a location for the trade show. Second, Apple introduces a new Mac Pro.

MSNBC is reporting CES organizers are in talks for a better deal. Any visitor to the trade show can attest that hotel prices during the week of CES are expensive. Some organizers claim hotel prices are typically five times a normal price.

Bloomberg is reporting that "Acer Inc. shares fell by the daily limit on concern the Taiwanese personal computer supplier is overpaying for a $710 million acquisition of Gateway Inc. to become the world's third-biggest PC maker."

Trevor Claiborne, Microsoft Tablet PC MVP and co-writer on The Student Tablet PC Blog, just started an internship with the Microsoft CRM group. Congratulations, Trevor and best of luck. Let’s have lunch when I get back from TechEd. In the meantime, make sure you pester the Tablet team while I’m away.

We added the IBM 6x86 Microprocessors to our product line.