ACER Aspire 1692 WLMI
The Acer Aspire 1692 WLMi is a story of compromises; a +/-/RAM dual layer burner and gigabit Ethernet are offset by Windows XP Home, only 512MB of RAM and the slowest processor and hard disk of the bunch.
Apple Powerbook G4
Apple’s 17-inch PowerBook G4 is a thing of beauty, shaming the other 17- inch notebooks with its size, weight and design – perhaps with the exception of the ASUS.
ASUS W2P00VC
We dubbed the ASUS ‘The Black Box’ because, like its aeronautical namesake, it records everything.
CASIO Cassiopeia XJ-360 Pro Data projector
Slightly over budget and over-specified to fit within last month’s budget projector roundup, the Casio XJ-360 is a very compact and very capable projector that may just be worth those extra dollars.
Dell Inspiron 6000
The Dell Inspiron 6000 walks into this roundup with a serious disadvantage – packing only an Intel P-M 1.86GHz and an ATI Mobility RADEON X300 it is easily outgunned by the competition.
Delta Force Xtreme
Here’s a new twist on extending the life and profitability of a game!
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Few games have been as unanimously wellreceived, and so uniformly controversial, than the Grand Theft Auto series.
GTR
GTR is, without any doubt, the very best racing simulation on the market.
HP Digital Projector VP6315
Hot on the heels of last month’s sub- $2500 projector roundup is HP’s new vp6315.
HP Pavilion ZD8001AP
You really have to look to the 17-inch giants like the HP Pavilion zd8001AP to find machines that were designed as multimedia beasts from the ground up.
Imperial Glory
Pyro Studios, the development team behind the Commandos series, has turned its hand to the hybrid RTS/ table-top strategy genre – a genre which consists primarily of Creative Assembly’s brilliant Total War games.
Juiced
Juiced pays tribute to EA’s Need for Speed: Underground, as much as NFS: Underground pays tribute to the film 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Multimedia notebook roundup
The days of featureless notebooks are over. Adam Turner hunts down the latest entertainment notebooks on the market.
NEC Versa M540
The NEC Versa M540 is a mixed bag, with middle of the road benchmarks and a high gloss display well suited to watching movies, but not the best for gaming.
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7800 GTX
A little over a year has passed since releasing the GeForce 6800, and right on cue, NVIDIA’s new chip is hitting town in the form of the GeForce 7800 GTX.
Omega Viewmaster Portiva 5Z71
The Omega Viewmaster Portiva 5Z71 is another notebook comprising of tradeoffs; the blistering Pentium-M 2GHz processor offset by an NVIDIA GeForce Go660 graphics card with only 64MB of video memory, accompanied by the smallest hard drive of the bunch.
Pariah
Sometimes it’s best to deliver bad news straight up – Pariah is a really mediocre first person shooter.
Pioneer Dreambook Power 900
The Pioneer DreamBook Power 900 is a locally built monster – this isn’t a desktop replacement, it’s a desk.
Protac Excel D495
Like the Pioneer, the Protac Excel D495 is another locally built giant – at this size we’re wading into desktop replacement territory.
Samsung M40 Plus
The Samsung M40 plus is a slick and stylish notebook, but unfortunately just doesn’t cut it compared to the others on test here.
Shuttle XPC ST20G5
The Shuttle XPC is an icon of SFF design, and there are as many iterations as there are chipsets.
Toshiba Satellite P30
The Toshiba Satellite P30 is a 17-inch behemoth with a price tag to match.