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Viiva Las Vegas - the Engadget crew departs CES

Author:Ryan Block

Date:by , posted Jan 13th 2007 at 1:07PM

Source Site:engadget



Congratulations, both you and we made it through Engadgets first ever dual CES / Macworld consumer tech bonanza -- and boy, was it a week to remember. Between Vistas coming out, to a format-unifying Blu-ray / HD DVD hybrid player, to a, um, humble cellphone, we were all up in CESs and Macworlds grill. Not only to bring you, our wonderful, loyal readers the very latest scoops though, it was partly because honestly we just couldnt stay away -- not even for a second. It was a long, amazing week for the ravenous tech obsessed (dont you worry, its not over yet since well be continuing to roll out the last of our coverage over the next couple days), but we really hope you feel like we delivered the goods. Either way, well see you next year -- and every day in between.

Number of posts to Engadget Classic: 525 and counting...
Number of posts to all Engadgets (including crossposts): 765
Number of lost gadgets: 1
Number of people who got sick: 0 (seriously!)
Average hours slept nightly: 4
Number of casinos visited: 7
Amount of money lost gambling: $5
Average number of laptops per person: 1.42
Number of laptops that died: 1
Average number of cellphones per person: 1.2
Pounds of shwag thrown away: at least 30
Individuals enjoying In N Out for the first time: 3
Maximum bandwidth used: over 6Gbps (and 500k hits per minute) during the Jobsnote
Number of people that wrote in to tell us how much they loved our coverage: a lot! Thanks!

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