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Intel Reveals First Entertainment PCs
The company also unveiled several of the first available Entertainment PCs.
Soaring sales of digital cameras, MP3 players, CD/DVD players, digital TVs, personal video recorders and a slew of other digital devices highlight the pervasiveness of digital entertainment. Consumers who want to enjoy this vast selection of digital content on their home TVs and stereos now have an easier way to do so due to a new category of PCs: the Entertainment PC.
The media “command center” of the digital home, Entertainment PCs are designed to sit on an entertainment rack and work with a television set with a remote control. The Entertainment PC combines the functionality of home audio and video devices with the power of a high-performance multimedia computer.
Alienware Pushes Area-51 Systems To 4GHz
From Alienware’s press release:
Alienware today announced the immediate availability of 4.0 GHz processors on Area-51 ALX Systems. Powered by performance-enhanced Intel Pentium 4 processors with Hyper Threading Technology, Alienware’s elite Area-51 ALX systems surpass previous barriers on speed.
Area-51 ALX systems are optimized to reach 4.0 GHz clock speeds that result in performance increases of approximately 10 percent over previous 3.6 GHz processors. With Alienware’s rigorous 200-point quality control inspection and extended burn-in process, Area-51 ALX systems deliver smooth and reliable performance even at turbo-charged processor speeds. Excess heat generated by elevated processor performance is controlled by Alienware’s exclusive ultra-quiet Liquid Cooling technology, which cools components with specially formulated liquid and gold-plated, pure copper coolers. Prices start at just over $4,000.
Intel Slashes Processor Prices
“Intel reduces prices on its processors from time to time in hopes of generating business or making way for new chips.
The steepest cuts, unveiled this weekend, came for the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s fastest Pentium 4 processors, in particular the 3.6GHz 560 model, which saw its price drop by 34.54 percent, from $637 to $417 per 1,000 units shipped.”
Read the full story at ExtremeTech
Alienware Launches DHC Media Center PCs
Alienware today announced the launch of its DHD line of media center PC systems. The DHD provides an all-in-one, wall-mountable home entertainment system that integrates the functionality of a Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004-based PC with a stunning 30″ TFT/LCD widescreen display.
Based on Hy-Tek Manufacturing’s TekPanel 300, reviewed here at Designtechnica, the Alienware DHD systems allow customers to replace nearly all of their individual home entertainment components in favor of one, multi-functional unit. DHD systems running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 deliver advanced computing plus easy-to-use integrated digital entertainment
Intel Officially Releases Grantsdale
From Intel’s press release:
In one of the most significant PC platform changes in a decade, Intel Corporation today announced products that usher in a range of audio, video and other capabilities previously found only on specialty PCs. In addition to making the PC experience more entertaining and productive, these technologies pave the way for such emerging capabilities as High Definition (HD) video, 7.1 surround sound and robust file protection for office and home users.
These technologies are helping create a new kind of PC, an all-in-one “hi-fi” device with high-definition video, high-fidelity sound and wireless connectivity, according to Louis Burns, vice president and general manager, Intel Desktop Platforms Group.
VIA PT890 Pictures showing PCI Express X16
Quote from the review at HardOCP:
“What you are seeing below are pictures of a working reference motherboard from VIA sporting their PT890 chipset. It supports the Pentium 4 processors, PCI Express, & AGP. Sources in Taiwan explain to us that the new Alderwood and Grantsdale chipsets from Intel will support AGP and PCI Express also, but the luxury of supporting both will not be allowed. This puts VIA in a very advantageous position of being able to supply motherboards to the enthusiast with a much easier upgrade path to those that do not want to purchase a new videocard.”
Sony Intros VAIO K Series Notebooks
If you are looking to trade in your desktop computer for a full-sized notebook, you might want to slip into something silver this spring. Sony’s just announced VAIO® K series notebooks are practical, portable and eye-catching.
All models in the K series, including the PCG-K13, PCG-K15 and PCG-K17 notebooks, feature Sony’s exclusive XBRITE
SiS 655FX Chipset review
Quote from the review:
“With the 655FX, SIS are introducing an interesting new technology known as ‘HyperStreaming’… but more on that in a moment. By default the SIS 655FX supports Intel Pentium 4 processors running on a400-thru-800 MHz FSB. The chipset also packs in a dual channel PC3200 memory controller, meaning it can provide the Pentium 4 with up to 6.4GB/s of bandwidth.”
Sony desktops get Giga Pocket abilities
The VAIO PCV-RS430G desktop model, available this month, allows you to not only watch and record your favorite TV programs, but also to convert old family movies stored on analog tape directly to a digital format. With integrated analog inputs, Giga Pocket
