So, this Intel VIIV thing..

[linkgoron]

What do you think it means?
Logo:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/news/2005-06/intel_viiv_new.jpg
Article:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20050630080956.html

It looks like it's 64 bit VI-6 IV-4, and also looks like Dual Core- VI twice (two cores), so what do you think it is?

 

[Duvie]

too much speculation....It may have been trademarked early on and then dumped for a different idea....who knows...

 

[linkgoron]

But look at this:

has recently changed

So it's still alive. It also looks basically the same, so it seems they didn't change the technology.

 

[Duvie]

actually it looks better, period......

Maybe its for the new dual core xeons or Itanium 2's???

 

[erwos]

As Anand's article points out, VIIV is Intel's HTPC initiative. As Centrino was to notebooks, VIIV will be to HTPC desktops (or so they hope, anyhow).

It seems like a reasonably good idea, although I don't think the HTPC market is going to find it as compelling as the laptop market found Centrino. Instant-on only matters if you need to turn the thing off, and dual-core assumes you don't have the media in a reasonable format to begin with... Couple those with the icky dependency on Windows MCE, and I'm not exactly sure it's going to be a great big winner. Woulda been nice if they had gone out on a limb and started pushing MythTV, but I guess this is cheaper and easier for marketing...

-Erwos

 

[glugglug]

ROFLMAO at this:

When you hit the Instant On/Off button on the remote, the VIIV PC goes into what is known as a "visual off state." Basically, the computer looks like it is turned off, but in reality it is not. The monitor and all LEDs on the system will shut off, but the system can continue to operate as normal.

I mean when I read what was up about VIIV before, I figured it was a suspend to RAM feature. But actually, it just shuts off the video signal & case LEDs. So the computer no longer has an off button in front. That's great Intel!! HAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[erwos]

Originally posted by: glugglug
I mean when I read what was up about VIIV before, I figured it was a suspend to RAM feature. But actually, it just shuts off the video signal & case LEDs. So the computer no longer has an off button in front. That's great Intel!! HAHAHAHAHAHA

To be fair, they could accompany this with some downclocking, and it'd be reasonably power efficient. Throttle the CPU 87%, downclock the video chipset, and spin down the hard drives... I think it would be a reasonable compromise between the need to save power and the need for an instant-on.

 

[biostud]

it looks like something pulled out of the 80's.

 

[Cerb]

HTPC stuff will matter when they can get it working like a set-top box, but with a computer behind it. Windows MCE '05 can half-do it, but is still pointless (it's a super-set of XP Home, not Pro), a few free apps can do it, but nothing quite gets it entirely, yet.

If they'd give up on MCE and instead use MythTV, there might be something...like working PVRs and no DRM. Make customers happy and piss off the content owners at the same time . Until then, they are pretty much going to be pushing good hardware with poor software, forcing us to build our own.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: biostud
it looks like something pulled out of the 80's.

...and they are now worried that the technology replacing VCRs will ruin the industry, just like VCRs did :roll:.

 

[Wahsapa]

Originally posted by: erwos
As Anand's article points out, VIIV is Intel's HTPC initiative. As Centrino was to notebooks, VIIV will be to HTPC desktops (or so they hope, anyhow).

It seems like a reasonably good idea, although I don't think the HTPC market is going to find it as compelling as the laptop market found Centrino. Instant-on only matters if you need to turn the thing off, and dual-core assumes you don't have the media in a reasonable format to begin with... Couple those with the icky dependency on Windows MCE, and I'm not exactly sure it's going to be a great big winner. Woulda been nice if they had gone out on a limb and started pushing MythTV, but I guess this is cheaper and easier for marketing...

-Erwos

ya but lets see what apple does with viiv

 

[sharad]

How do you pronounce VIIV? Or is it just called vee ie ie vee?

 

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