Some of the more recent ones include the aborted Palm Foleo, the Sony Mylo, Nokia Internet Tablets, UMPCs, and MIDs.
Patent pending 50mm Dual-Diaphragm Drivers sport inner and outer rings separating the bass from bleeding into the mids and highs.
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MIDs, netbooks and nettops will be as successful as many predict, says Dean McCarron of Mercury Research, a market-research firm.
It's got nine speakers: six 8-centimeter (3.15-inch) aluminum cone mids powered by neodymium magnets and three 2.5-centimeter (1-inch) titanium dome tweeters.
Although they're sized for a desktop, the speakers deliver assertive bass along with clear mids and highs at a range of volumes.
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The MiC did provide a crisper, clearer track than the Tiki despite its reliance on predominantly mids and highs for the undoctored captures.
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Two more MIDs were spotted running Android recently, and the kids over at Pocketables were kind enough to clue us in on the developments.
It's typical Klipsch -- soothing bass, punchy mids and a lighter range of highs that most folks either love or hate when listening to anything made by the company.
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In terms of sound quality, the units sound almost exactly the same as S4i: warm with a pleasant amount of chunky bass that doesn't overwhelm the highs and mids.
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The sound quality is well-rounded in terms of tone and highs, while mids and lows are all adequately represented when tracking vocals (read: speaking, we'll spare the universe from our mediocre Jack White attempts) and instruments.
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Clear mids made our favorite singer-songwriters sound fantastic, while booming lows brought out the best in the synthetic squawks and explosions in our games, and the highs... well, at lower volumes, they were pretty good too, but you'll also hear plenty of distortion with the box cranked up.
As part of the Open Screen Project, which should be getting Adobe Flash onto many new platforms, Adobe, NVIDIA and Broadcom are all hard at work getting GPU acceleration to do what it ought for Flash Player, with improvements in store for everything from Tegra MIDs to Broadcom Crystal HD netbooks (like HP's new Mini 110XP, pictured) to tablets and beyond.
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Look, Moblin and MIDs and USB 3.0 are all well and good, but the real highlight of IDF is hiding in plain sight: it's Intel's CE 3100 Media Processor-based Tru2way DVR server, which has three digital cable tuners that can be streamed over a regular gigabit Ethernet or MoCA to any number of clients, ranging from other 3100-based set-top boxes to DLNA devices like laptops and even the PS3.
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