In fact, the so-called bee computer of the bee family is quite similar to the learning machine that was quite popular more than ten years ago, or it is a good thing all the way, but the performance is better and the price is more expensive.

This computer is not fundamentally different from other PCs in terms of hardware, but the power consumption is slightly smaller, there are more sensors and VLC light modules, and the key difference is the X86 version of Bee OS installed in the high-speed SSD, and the special version of the Virtual Earth Engine (VEE).

The former supports all of Bee's own software and games, and the Bee Network is actively reaching out to some partners to lobby them to launch Bee OS software and games. The pre-installed VEE can greatly simplify the time and disk space consumption of users to download and install Bee games, and this software is also open to other software, such as "3D Animal Encyclopedia", "3D Ship Encyclopedia", "Virtual Lab", etc.

The latter software is to show that this computer is not a pure game console, in fact, the game is only a part-time job, and education and scientific research are the ontology......

After Atletico Madrid's big demon withdrew from the front line of product development, the program apes and planners who had been suppressed by him for two years finally began to be active, and whimsical ideas emerged one after another. Although due to the decline in technical support from Atletico Madrid, Bee has not launched any eye-catching innovative products like Dream Walker this year, but their various improvements and integrations of "old" products are also full of highlights, full of vitality and imagination, or brain holes.

Take this bee computer, for example.

It is a customized game display machine for bee games, which uses carefully selected high-performance hardware, with the Vista system that replaces the bottom layer of the system and streamlines and customizes a large number of functions, specifically in order to make its games have better picture performance. Initially, these computers were used to record various "actual demo videos", but they gradually appeared at various game exhibitions such as CJ, WebBo, Tokyo Game Show, regional player centers, and bee sure stores.

As a display machine, the configuration of these computers has always been the pursuit of fashion, and the update is particularly frequent and the obsolescence is very fast. In fact, these eliminated computers have only fallen from the "top" to the "forefront", and the performance of playing bees' own games is still enough to crush most of the high-end game consoles on the market, so the display machines that have been eliminated in the past two years have been bought by bees' own employees at a low price, and they have been digested internally.

It is said that it is a low price, but it is only slightly lower than the mainstream configuration, and it is not the price of cabbage, and the employees who bought them are undoubtedly fanatical fans of bee games. This has made more players aware of the existence of "other people's custom computers" in this world, and some of them have contacted Bee Games and Bee Electronics to seek opportunities to customize exclusive game consoles.

Although the order volume of this high-end customization business is very general, it is better than the high profit of a single order, and it can be collected first and then produced without the problem of inventory depreciation, coupled with the fact that it is accustomed to small displacement flexible production, Bee Electronics is naturally reluctant to push these orders outward, and tends to choose to accept.

However, there is an important issue to be solved before this, and that is the copyright issue of the modified version of the Windows system. According to the Linux Chinese version plus custom software, it can be called the "convention" of domestic independent research and development of operating systems,Bee, the modified version of the operating system, can be said to be independent research and development,After all, all drivers and underlying hardware layer protocols have been replaced with ant system systems,The amount of new and changed code is more than 40%,If you add random software, it is more than half of the strength。

However, this is obviously impossible, after all, Linux is an open source system, anyone can borrow code, as long as it continues to be open source, it is no problem. Many companies have modified Linux to release new operating systems, such as Intel's BLIN for Mid devices and Nokia's MAE for smartphones, as well as Google's smartphone operating system Android.

But Windows is not an open source system, any modification of it is illegal, if you sell a modified version of Windows, even if you buy a genuine license, it is still difficult to escape the fate of Tomato Garden, coupled with the contempt and defense of Windows within the bees, it is natural to think of using your own system.

It just so happens that Bee's own x86 version of the bee system, after more than a year of continuous use in hundreds of thousands of bee netbooks, has been repeatedly modified and polished to become quite mature, and the vast majority of bee's own software and games have also migrated to this platform. After careful discussion, demonstration and testing, it was finally decided to use the x86 version of the bee system.

In this sense, this kind of customized computer is actually an enhanced version of the bee netbook, and the hardware architecture, operating system, and so on are all in the same vein.

Because most of the devices running the Bee system are small mobile devices, the Bee system has made great achievements in the field of mobile phones and tablets such as battery life and heat control, wireless communication, touch and voice interaction, and these characteristics have also been inherited to the x86 version of the Bee system.

Although the bee netbook does not have Windows, many familiar software and games cannot be used, but it also has the advantages of long battery life, not easy to be poisoned and hacked, plus a large number of bee's own software and games, daily use is no problem. At the beginning of the year, Penguin's house launched a vegetable stealing game and completely detonated the national trend of stealing vegetables with a huge number of users, Bee Electronics launched a new model that supports direct insertion of mobile phone cards to be connected to the Internet anytime and anywhere, and shot a group of advertisements for it "I steal vegetables in the Everest/South China Sea/Sky", which has gained a lot of attention and sold tens of thousands of units a week.

Although there were other netbook manufacturers that later launched models that can insert mobile phone cards, they are always inferior to bee netbooks in terms of battery life and signal stability, even if everyone is wireless Internet access through the 2G network of China Mobile Unicom. Even if the battery and baseband chip used in individual models are the same supplier as Bee, the effect is naturally worse because there is no exclusive customized power management chip and antenna and exclusive driver software for Bee.

Nowadays, the sales of bee netbooks are not as good as before, but it is not because the north is surpassed by competitors, but because the netbook product quickly fell into decline. As a portable computer, its portability is not as good as that of a smartphone, and its performance is not as good as that of a notebook or even a desktop. In addition, the web games represented by the vegetable stealing game began to ebb rapidly after some social problems caused by the popularity for a while, and the netbooks quickly lost the love of users.

At this time, someone proposed to want a custom computer optimized for bee games, and Bee Electronics simply pushed the boat to upgrade the configuration of the netbook and turn it into a real game computer.

So the finalized Bee custom computer is a kind of "transformer" with netbook style, which is a bit like a large thickened tablet with a wide body that houses a variety of high-performance accessories, and the overall performance is not weaker than that of mainstream desktops. Although it is not a notebook and there is no need to worry about battery life, the engineers of Bee still adhere to the requirement of "the highest performance per watt" to select the hardware for it, so that the system heating and power consumption are well controlled, and the heat will not be hot due to the use of a large number of high-performance accessories.

Equipped with a rotatable stand and a detachable wireless keyboard, this all-in-one computer is a powerful gaming laptop with a keyboard and the king of tablets with a keyboard that is the king of tablets, and the performance, thickness and weight of all competitors are absolutely crushed. When the stand is placed on the table, it can exert another super "deformation" ability.

The rotatable bracket allows the screen body of the all-in-one machine to adjust the pitch angle within plus or minus 30 degrees, and can also rotate vertically, and the built-in acceleration sensor can automatically identify the direction of the machine and automatically switch between horizontal and vertical screen modes. And the real "deformation" function of this product lies in the "quick fit" function it says!

This technology is somewhat similar to the multi-screen display mode that graphics card manufacturers are promoting on desktops, and the high-performance graphics card outputs a horizontal resolution image signal to multiple monitors connected in parallel, so as to obtain a larger horizontal field of view, which is very convenient for office, monitoring, and stock trading users who need to pay attention to more information at the same time. In the past, in order to achieve similar effects, such users needed to turn on multiple computers at the same time, and then put the computer screen and keyboard and mouse in front of them for several days.

Multi-screen displays are also attractive to gamers, as a wider field of view allows players to get more information at the same time, while also helping to enhance the immersion of the game and the movie. However, this requires the corresponding games and film and television files to launch a special ultra-wide version, coupled with the need for high-performance high-end graphics cards to support multi-screen display systems, special brackets to carry multiple monitors, and a large desktop space, all kinds of limitations make this technology has been in a state of applause, players envy and appreciate the multi-screen display system built by high-level players, but they also lack an interest in themselves.

However, the "instant fit" mode of the bee transformation all-in-one machine is a more advanced technology, which is more convenient to use and cooler. In the commercial, Bee shows the following usage scenarios:

In the first scene, a group of fans wearing red jerseys and looking like national flags are sitting in front of a monitor, staring at the screen excitedly, just the away team player fouled and was awarded a free kick in the front court, the broadcast camera is switching back and forth between the faces of the penalty taker, the away team's defender's wall, the away team's goalkeeper, the home team coach, the away team coach, and the referee, and the commentator suddenly shouted: "The home team is sending a free kick quickly, the ball is in the ball!"

Without waiting for the fans and viewers to vent their anger and complain about the unprofessional broadcast director on the advertising screen, the picture switches to scene 2, where a group of people are still watching the game, but they are a "bumblebee" bee in front of one person, and they specially contacted Hasbro and obtained the authorization to use the image of the Transformers bumblebee robot in the computer field. When the penalty scene appeared again, several spectators suddenly leaned their "bumblebees" together, and as the shells collided with each other, the original identical picture suddenly changed, and a number of broadcast video signals appeared at the same time, so everyone saw the moment when the penalty taker sneaked into a quick free kick, and also saw the goalkeeper who was shocked and even a little dazed. Then they each reached out to pick up their "bumblebee", and the picture on the screen became exactly the same again.

This is an advertisement for "watching football", as for whether CNTV, which exclusively contracts the broadcast rights of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, will provide multi-camera video sources at the same time as advertised, it is not a question that bees should be concerned about. The word "World Cup" is not passed in the advertisement from beginning to end, although there are various hints.

In several other advertisements, they showed a series of very cool features such as collision acceleration, six-screen combined forced IMAX, dual-screen 3D display, fast screen sharing, file dragging, and airflying.

In fact, technologies such as wireless projection of video signals have long been done by manufacturers, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, etc., as early as 2003, initiated the processing of DLNA (Digital Life Network Alliance), the main purpose of which is to realize the simple interconnection of a variety of devices on wired and wireless networks, and high-speed transmission of media files. A computer that supports DLNA can act as a temporary media server to play the existing videos, pictures and music of the machine to another DLNA device in the local area network, such as a TV, computer or even a mobile phone.

However, the bee "bumblebee" does not use DLNA, not that it can't pay the membership dues, but it is troublesome, this kind of big alliance across different industries such as software and hardware, computers, home appliances, networks, etc., must be full of mountains inside, each with its own position and needs, and the standard formulation process will definitely be rippling. This is clearly not in the interest of the fast-growing bee group, so bees also learn from Apple, and these standards organizations generally go around the road.

Speaking of which, Bee Group has been jokingly called "local Apple" by IT media, because the product line is very close, and the products and services provided by Apple, in addition to the iHips music store and iPod music player, Bee almost has corresponding content. Therefore, although the "Bumblebee" also has WiFi and network cable interfaces, the most used is the Bee's own exclusive VLC light communication technology. There is a set of light modules on the side of the Bumblebee screen, which automatically establishes a light communication connection when the screen is close to each other, and then automatically performs some special actions according to the analysis of some actions of the user.

For example, a left-to-right collision is to share the screen content, a right-to-left collision is to automatically expand the screen, a triple tap is to start the dual-screen 3D mode, a double tap is to start the file drag and drop interface, and so on.

In more than a year of practical application, the VLC of Bee has embarked on the road of short-distance high-speed transmission, avoiding the shortcomings of long-distance transmission light occlusion and other light source interference, and trying to give full play to the high-speed advantages of multi-color light multi-channel parallel transmission, and has realized face-to-face gigabit transmission, which can not only be used for LAN file sharing, but also can realize the bee colony collaborative acceleration function of LAN with the help of fast network.

Although Bee Collaborative Acceleration has helped many netizens to achieve "zero-cost upgrade of computers (in fact, there are electricity and depreciation costs)", there are still many netizens who have not been able to enjoy this technology, after all, there are still many restrictions on its implementation. Collaborative acceleration has high requirements for users' network conditions and network environment, and the requirements for bandwidth and latency are gradually increasing as user requirements increase. The smaller the bandwidth, the less acceleration functions can be used, after all, the link between the local computer and the "swarm" is the network cable, and if the line is too "thin", of course, it will seriously affect the use effect.

The network cable is too "long" and it is also not good, because the bee regional server is required to act as a computing power storage reservoir to dispatch computing power, and only users within a certain distance near the bee computer room can fully enjoy the collaborative acceleration service, and users in other places can only use the most basic network acceleration functions.

Therefore, there have been voices that hope that the bee network will launch a comprehensive launch of the LAN version of the collaborative acceleration function, and the bee has only been for some PCs before more than 2048, but the external network is not particularly good for 10,000 colleges and universities to launch a customized version of the collaborative acceleration client, and did not look for the official version of the client to add this function.

This time, in order to increase the competitiveness of the group-led project of "Bumblebee", Bee Network cooperated with three companies, namely software, electronics, and games, to realize the rapid collaborative acceleration function exclusive to "Bumblebee".

When multiple "bumblebees" establish a high-speed LAN with the help of VLC, WiFi and network cables, they will immediately enter the cooperative acceleration mode to automatically share the computing pressure. The fast collaborative acceleration function, which draws on the principle of dynamic load balancing of blade servers, can make the "merged" bumblebee in parallel produce the same effect as a blade server. Whether it's video transcoding, file compression that's too slow, or game stuttering lag, you can easily solve it by "paralleling" one or even more "Hornets".

Although it is not cost-effective to purchase a bunch of "Bumblebees" to go back as a blade server because of the price, it is a very convenient choice to transfer dozens of Bumblebees to build a "server" if you use it occasionally, and it is also a server with a large screen.

In order to promote this function, Bee Electronics was originally going to tour colleges and universities across the country, and show the all-round ability of "Bumblebee" by organizing a flash mob game competition, house dance competition, movie viewing activities and other common activities in campus cultural life. Although the lockdown was not strong, it still made it more difficult to apply for the tour, and the event had to be canceled and replaced with a series of commercials.

The effect of these advertisements is obvious, and "Bumblebee" has also become the first PC in history to sell "two-machine sets" and "three-machine sets". It was really because of seeing the hot sales of Bumblebee and the "real domestic operating system" that gradually caused heated discussions on the Internet, that Fang Zhanping and his shareholders got up to take advantage of the heat, oh not to take advantage of the situation to make money.

Thinking about a lot of things in a short period of time, Atletico smiled at Fang Zhanping: "It's good to go public, it just so happens that I'm still thinking about buying a license to use the ARM architecture to redesign various chips for my own use." If it is listed, it is just announced that the listing and fundraising are to enter the manufacturing of upstream core components CPU and GPU. ”

"Isn't arm a mobile phone processor? The architecture is different, can Bumblebee use it?"

"No problem, the bee system is a hierarchical structure, and if you change the ARM processor, you just need to change it to the corresponding version of the ant system. As for the lack of performance of mobile phone processors, it is a big deal to have a few more processors, as long as you find software design to strengthen multi-core parallel processing. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net