We tried it with several sets of headphones, among them the included earbuds, and sound was consistently good, equally so with a few sets of desktop PC speakers.
"With Logitech as a worldwide leader in PC speakers, we're excited they are bringing an audio adapter for Intel WiDi-enabled devices to market, " said Kerry Forell, Intel Product Line Manager for Intel WiDi.
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The PC Station also has speakers, a slot for three types of memory cards and a DVD drive.
While the mammoth convention includes a healthy representation of PC-related keynote speakers, such as Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina, and Craig Barrett, it remains to be seen whether the show will truly come into its own as the focal point for the consumer PC industry.
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To get the best gaming experience possible, he ordered a custom-built PC with a 398-gigabyte hard drive, Bose speakers and an Nvidia GeForce 6800 graphics card.
According to a slide in the presentation, after a strategic review, Logitech is focusing on tablet accessories, wireless speakers as well as keeping its lead in PC-related products.
When listening to music, the sound of the PC was obliterated by a battered old Sony amp and speakers plugged into the motherboard's optical port via an equally battered MiniDisc player with optical-in that functioned as our DAC.
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Gurus also bought into a technology niche in videogames, more than doubling their holdings of Logitech, the Swiss maker of peripherals popular with gamers, such as interactive gaming controllers, multimedia speakers, Webcams, and headsets for the PC and gaming consoles.
Gurus also bought into a technology niche in videogames, more than doubling their holdings of Logitech (nasdaq: LOGI - news - people ), the Swiss maker of peripherals popular with gamers, such as interactive gaming controllers, multimedia speakers, Webcams, and headsets for the PC and gaming consoles.
Other goodies here include a three megapixel camera (a nice bump over the two megapixel shooters found on the IM-R100 and IM U-MU110), PictBridge support for PC-less printing, MP3 playback enhanced by four-channel stereo speakers and an FM transmitter, plus that popular Korean add-on, the electronic dictionary.
The Asus Transformer tablet also has speakers, though I found these weren't nearly as strong as those built into the PC Station.
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