IDF 2006: Intel Centrino Ready For Windows Vistà And HD DVD

The IDF zero day in San Francisco turned into a kind of a notebook show at which the company demonstrated among other things the readiness of Napa-based (Core Duo) systems for some future technologies.

For example they showed a widescreen notebook supporting and playing HD DVD movies:

The notebook utilized integrated graphics of Intel 945GM Express, 1GB of RAM and Intel Core Duo CPU. However they underlined that Intel's single-core CPU wouldn't allow this machine to play HD DVD movies without frame losses.

The second interesting machine was a similar notebook on i945GM, 1GB RAM of Intel T2300 (Core Duo, 1.66 GHz).

Such hardware configuration was good at handling the most advanced version of Windows Vista OS which required at least 1GB of RAM.

And again the integrated graphics of i945GM was quite enough to use at all the innovations of Vista interface, including 3D window operations, opacity, etc.

Surely there was a large number of systems demonstrating the power of Core Duo over its predecessor Dothan (Pentium M). However, new comm possibilities were of more interest. Like this Skype handset:

Note that was not just the audio, but video communication with a realtime data exchange. Of course, the system was optimized for Intel's dual-core platform.

Even Mooly Eden, the main idea-monger of mobile processors like Intel Pentium M (Banias, Dothan) and Core Duo (Yohan), used this system and other Napa-based innovations with interest:

Source: Alex Karabuto (lx@ixbt.com), our own reporter at IDF

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