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BEST DISPLAY Hewlett-Packard f230 4 Boy, have times changed. Last year, honors went to Sony’s F520 CRT monitor (which had swept ...

Dell’s brutish XPS notebook has done what the company’s desktop brethren can’t: kick-ass and take names. This laptop even knocke ...

DECEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 39 Sony has the distinction of delivering to Maximum PC the fi rst drive capable of burning 8.5GB of da ...

BEST CASE ENCLOSURE Silverstone TJ03 Nimiz When people talk about the “decadent West,” they’re referring to the likes of the TJ0 ...

BEST PDA Dell Axim X30 Dell’s Axim X30 shames even the new higher-resolution PDAs with its ultra- wee formfactor, sleek design, ...

DECEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC  From the most cutting-edge workshop in the greater NoPo area: 20 of the coolest gadgets and gizmos f ...

RADIOSHARK TiVo + Radio = radioSHARK. Pause a broadcast during potty-breaks or rewind to enjoy our President’s verbal gaffes man ...

DECEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 47 ROBOSAPIEN When the machines take over the world and enslave us, remember that it all began with ben ...

48 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 M-AUDIO OZONE Looking something like the piano Schroeder played for the Peanuts gang, M-Audio’s kill ...

STAR WARS LIGHTSABER REPLICA If lightsabers got any more realistic than this glowing replica for spoiled kids (complete with mot ...

50 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 SKYBOX Who’s worried about large multinational corporations outsourcing elf labor overseas? Not this ...

TacklingTackling With a brand-new interface and a wide range of functionality, can the Media Center PC dominate the living room? ...

With a brand-new interface and a wide range of functionality, can the Media Center PC dominate the living room? We show you how ...

MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 MEDIA CENTER 101: Introducing WinXP: Media Center Edition Media Centers Chances are you haven’t seen mu ...

DECEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 57 Alienware DHD-305 Each of the PCs you’ll read about offers a unique interpre- tation of the type of ...

58 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 HP Media Center Photosmart PC Squat, compact, versatile, and inexpensive, HP’s take on the Media Cen ...

60 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 Media Centers Toshiba Qosmio iBuyPower Media-XP Benchmarks How do you measure Media Center success? ...

Media Centers 62 MA XIMUMPC DECEMBER 2004 T H E U P S H O T WinXP Media Center vs. Tivo Head 2 Head A showdown among natural PC ...

A CASE OF THE FUZZIES I recently purchased a GeForce FX 5200 videocard, and I’m currently using an RF adapter to output the S-vi ...

PC. Maxtor’s web site says the model is a 40.9GB hard drive, but Windows XP Pro will only recognize it as a 7.82GB hard drive. W ...