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Alienware Hangar18 (960 Hours)

Although the Alienware Hangar18 came out earlier this year, we held off on a review in anticipation of covering it with a Blu-ray burner. Now that the Blu-ray option is ready, we wish we'd stuck with the standard definition model. Overall, the Hangar18 is a compact, mostly well-conceived home theater...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Home entertainment, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Alienware Hangar18, Alienware

Product reviews 2007-10-26

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Sony VAIO VGX-TP25E Home Theater PC

As much as we find Sony's $3,000 VAIO TP25 Home Theater PC overpriced, this premium model actually has better bang-for-the-buck than the VAIO TP1 it replaces. Thanks to a beefy processor and more memory, the TP25 delivers respectable performance for a $3,000 PC built with laptop components. Unfortunately, we don't...

Tags: Desktops, VAIO TP25, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., PC

Product reviews 2008-02-13

Logitech diNovo Mini Keyboard

Logitech's diNovo Mini does for home theater PC keyboards what Apple's iPod did to the MP3 player. Granted, there are many more digital music listeners than HTPC owners out there, but if you are a member of the latter category, you'll love the diNovo Mini because it solves one...

Tags: Keyboards, Home entertainment, analog mode, diNovo Mini, keyboard, Logitech, Logitech diNovo

Product reviews 2008-01-06

HP Pavilion SlimLine s3200t

Because there was some confusion the first time we reviewed a customizable HP SlimLine desktop, we'll make it known right from the start that this system is not like the budget SlimLines you'll find on store shelves. Instead, the Pavilion SlimLine s3200t is HP's online version. You can configure it...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Desktops, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Blu-ray, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co., Slimline, HD-DVD, PC

Product reviews 2007-11-16

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)

Windows Vista includes a new set of features that allow playback software to work with protected media. This DRM infrastructure is bitterly controversial, and it's given rise to an enormous amount of misinformation. No one has been more active or successful in spreading FUD and misinformation about this technology than...

Tags: Protection, Dell Computer Corp., Media Center PC, PC, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, Reality, Aero, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-09-18