Borderline behaviour by Chipzilla
INTEL HAS A MUCH ballyhooed new technology for its Viiv programme. No, not a novel DRM infection, but Quick Resume Mode/Instant On. This 'technology' is not a technology, it is a mute button that blanks video too, and the use of it is borderline on Intel's part.
If you look at the Viiv pages
here, it lists 'instant On/Off' as a feature, but it does no such thing. The instant on/off feature simply mutes the sound and blanks the video, everything else carries on as usual. Don't believe me? Read
this. Note the bolded warning, it says straight out that it does not power down the computer in any way. Several manufacturers have confirmed this to me also.
So what you have is Intel claiming that it shuts down the computer, but it does not, will not, and was never planned to. If you hit that instant off feature, the machine sits there spinning away at full tilt, or nearly so, sucking down electricity 24 hours by seven. It should be ashamed of itself, needlessly wasting resources and covering it up. Viiv is turning into a running joke, from vendor antagonism to
cutting out Linux at the behest of Microsoft to the massive DRM infection it brings. If Intel wonders why people don't embrace the concept, it only has to look inward and take two bits of advice: 1) Lose the DRM infection and give people a product that is not actively user hostile 2) Stop saying it does something it doesn't. See, easy.
The INQuirer