Intel have been showing off their Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform again, and while normally I’ve got no time for show-offs this demo is actually pretty impressive.  A common complaint levelled at UMPCs and other ultraportables is that they’re underpowered; however, here Intel show a VoIP app running despite purposefully crashing the system’s OS. 

The stability is down to VirtualLogix, who have figured out a way to run the network and audio stacks running in a virtualised Linux instance while the main operating system reboots.  It’s actually made me quite excited about MIDs, which I haven’t felt since the UMPC was first a twinkle in Microsoft’s eye and before we realised that, in the first generation at least, they weren’t all that hot.

[via Engadget]