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New BTX Form Factor Announced At IDF

Posted by timothy on from the why-does-factor-follow-form dept.

xyote writes "A new motherboard form factor was announced at IDF today. See Google News for various press stories on it (how's that for up to date links?). Also, go here for the actual BTX specs."

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  1. On off button by onyxruby · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Interesting note here about the on/off button.
    Intel also previewed an instant on/off technology, allowing consumers to press the "on" button and the PC is ready in a few seconds.

    Didn't we have instant "off" capabilities back in the day of the 8086? Does anyone else miss the ability to push the power button and have their computer turn off now? With most modern BIOS's ignoring user settings for instant off, it really has to make me wonder about some of these new fangled "innovations".

    The thing that makes me wonder though is this part
    If the PC loses power, this technology quickly recovers without losing data or rebooting the PC under normal operation.

    Just how are they going to avoid rebooting a computer if the power goes off? MRAM is set to debut, and this could in theory hold the users' data state, but you still have to boot the computer up through the normal BIOS process, or am I missing something?
  2. BTX by absolut_kurant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, in the 80's in Germany and Austria (maybe in other countries, too?) a system called BTX (Bildschirmtext, On-Screen Text) was introduced. You could call it an Interner-precursor, comparable to the French stuff (Minitel?).

    Anyway, here are the pics: BTX

    Maybe we'll get the cool cases back ;)

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    Yes.