Five 17" Media Center Notebooks Compared: Which Is Best?

Published on May 9, 2006 to Notebooks and Laptops

Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) is often the operating system of choice among consumers hungry for living room or family room systems that can help them organize and enjoy their music, movies, TV programs and more. We evaluate and rank five 17" MCE notebooks from Acer, Fujitsu, HP, Sony and Toshiba. Read more

Two Big-Screen Multimedia Notebooks with HD-DVD Players

Published on January 2, 2007 to Home Theater

Earlier this year, we were wowed by a collection of five big-screen MCE notebook PCs. We return to this fertile field of technology, and find ourselves impressed by the quality and fidelity that HD-DVD players deliver, especially on big, capable HDTVs with HDMI inputs. Read more