AMD announces new LIVE! PCs from Alienware, Dell

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Oct 12th 2006 at 6:40AM

It's been a little while since we've heard from AMD LIVE!, the company's answer to Intel's Viiv platform, but today, AMD announced its latest round of Live PCs, made by Alienware and Dell. While we don't have a lot of details on what exactly will constitute these devices, the word on the street is that Alienware will be producing a "DHS high-definition" media center, packing an Athlon 64 X2 processor, a D2Audio home theater amplifier and NVIDIA nForce 430/GeForce 6150 graphics card. (For those of you keeping score at home, Alienware's previous DHS 2 featured Intel's Pentium 4 chips.) In related news, AMD added new software features to be included in its Entertainment Suite, such as voice and video chat, a new kids-friendly browser and new WildTangent games. No word on when this will be available to the masses (nor how much it will cost), but it will be demoed at this week's DigitalLife show in New York.

[Via TG Daily; thanks, Peter B]

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Media PCs

Tags: alienware, amd, dell, live!

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Matias Korhonen @ Oct 12th 2006 7:48AM

Is this the first AMD Live! actual productiom machine that's been announced? I don;t remember seeing any others...

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Alex C @ Oct 12th 2006 8:24AM

Did AMD's marketing department just keel over and die? Intel has obliterated them in terms of exposure recently.

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Ian Jardine @ Oct 12th 2006 9:12AM

So now AMD is in charge of Dell's product PR?

No wonder DELL is in trouble these days. And no wonder Apple is eating into their market.

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John Doe @ Oct 12th 2006 10:11AM

Apple eating into Dell's market. That is funny Ian. Really funny. well you could be right if you consider .10% eating into their market.

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John Doe @ Oct 12th 2006 10:11AM

And I would want this over a Core 2 Duo Extreme why? Too little too late. Wake me when AMD has an answer to the C2D.

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me @ Oct 12th 2006 10:54AM

Sweet I'll check this out at digital life. I'm going after my test today.

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Adam @ Oct 12th 2006 11:10AM

Wildtangent? Preinstalled spyware? No thanks.

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Jim @ Oct 12th 2006 1:06PM

Live! Viiv? Cut the jive! Show us from DigitalLife

"AMD's Upcoming Enthusiast Platform Codenamed 4x4 at the Alienware Booth".

Report on the 4x4's chipset: Ati or SLi?

http://www.alienware.com/press_release_pages/press_release_template.aspx?FileName=press100906.asp
http://www.alienware.com/microsite_pages/coap/digital_life.aspx?source=PRE0020

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