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    AMD Live

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dancebabe9008, Aug 11, 2006.

  1. dancebabe9008

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    What is AMD Live! and what laptops have it?
     
    dancebabe9008, Aug 11, 2006
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    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    A PC which has certain components that enable it to be a media centric computer. I dont think it was intended to be used in laptops, so none of the laptops have that branding. It is more of a branding initiative equivalent to Intel ViiV.

    http://www.amdlive.com/en-us/
     
    miner, Aug 11, 2006
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    But I saw it on an HSN laptop. Where they were controlling the desktop with a laptop.
     
    dancebabe9008, Aug 12, 2006
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    It is a desktop technology, a competitor to Intel's Viiv.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Aug 12, 2006
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    It's actually a marketing scheme hatched by AMD in response to Intel's VIIV campaign. I don't remember the exact components, but I believe a PC needs Windows Media Center, a TV tuner, and an AMD processor to qualify for the AMD LIVE logo.
     
    KrispyKreme50, Aug 12, 2006
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    It's basically AMD's attempt to make a PC more like an easy to use Home Television. AMD Live is not a laptop technology/platform.
     
    Lil Mayz, Aug 13, 2006
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    I swear I saw on HSN the AMD live laptop controlling the AMD live desktop.
     
    dancebabe9008, Aug 13, 2006
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    hmm...the user might have been wireless streaming music ro something from the laptop to the AMD Live desktop, so it probably appeared that the user was "controlling" the AMD desktop with the laptop.
     
    Lil Mayz, Aug 14, 2006
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