from its latest production run to us in time for this review, but wasn't able to put one in our hands soon enough for us to cover it here. We plan to schedule reviews for both units, however, as soon as we can slipstream them into our tightly-packed schedule...

we encountered an interesting side effect of our machine setup methodology. We routinely reinstalled a clean, fresh OS, with no patches or Windows XP post-SP2 updates (or the MCE 2005 release media in this case, as they slipstream the SP2 material). At first,...

hardware items and once enough of the underlying system changes to trigger a violation, it refuses to run on the current hardware. We understand Vista works the same way, too. We got around this by using an image of plain-vanilla Windows XP with SP2 slipstreamed...