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What is the difference between MID and UMPC?

written by: Michelle Lee | category: Tech News | posted: 03/10/08

What is the difference between MID and UMPC?

Even me as a gadget lover have the following question: what the hell’s the difference between a UMPC and a MID?  According to CeBIT, here’s the explaination finally.

UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC)

  1. Business-class device for enterprise users
  2. Runs a “heavy” OS like Vista
  3. Optimized for office-use applications like Excel, Word, etc.

MID (Mobile Internet Device)

  1. Consumer-class lifestyle device
  2. Runs a ‘lightweight” OS with quick startup like Linux
  3. Optimized for things like media playback and web surfing
  4. In 2009 (or so) Moorestown-based devices will be classed as MIDs only

Source: Intel

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