TG Daily Video: Intel demonstrates Core 2 Duo performance gains

Los Angeles (CA) - At the E3 Expo last week, Jodi Geniesse from Intel showed us the upcoming Arima entertainment PC which is basically a computer integrated into a nice LCD panel. The PC will be Viiv-branded and able to stream video and music across networks. A wireless keyboard is included and is slide under the computer when not in use. A webcam is intergrated into the top of the unit.

A multi-threaded physics demo was next up. In a short demo, Geniesse blasted a castle with virtual canon balls. In single-threaded mode, the castle destruction was somewhat slow and hung up a few times. When Geniesse switched to multi-threaded mode, everything became smooth.

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Humphrey Cheung was a senior editor at Tom's Hardware, covering a range of topics on computing and consumer electronics. You can find more of his work in many major publications, including CNN and FOX, to name a few.