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============================================================ ********** Sponsored by Xerox ********** Enter to win a 40GB Apple iPod package and learn about the Xerox DocumentCentre(r) 430 Digital Copier. A speedy copier with features worth a whole lot more, $99 per month*. Visit office.xerox.com. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1189-1-1-371668-111947-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ Welcome to today's edition of Inside PCMag.com. This weekend our parent company, Ziff Davis, is sponsoring a huge consumer electronics show in New York City called DigitalLife. It's about all the technology you can use and connect in your home to enhance your lives. So imagine, for example, video, music, photos, and movies available at the touch of a button, whether you're at the PC or your refrigerator. It's an exciting show, but we were wondering what your vision of a digital home is. Tell us about how you think it does work and then, maybe, how the ultimate digital home really should function. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1189-1-1-371668-111950-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Review Roundup: Media Center Edition 2005 Arrives! * Review: Extend the Media Center * Column: Microsoft's Growing Family * Product News: An Ultralight Ultraportable * Opinion: Can E-Voting Be Trusted? * Review: A Good Value for 19-Inch Buyers * Review: A Very Good Midrange Pocket PC * Product News: Access Media Files Anywhere ============================================================ Review Roundup: Media Center Edition 2005 Arrives! Forget everything you've heard about media centers. The new Microsoft operating system, Media Center 2005, and the new system built to support it leave the first-generation OS and systems in the dust. These are systems you can work with and PCs that do not look out of place in the living room. We have reviews of the OS, as well as systems from HP, Gateway, and others. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1189-1-1-371668-111953-1 ============================================================ Review: Extend the Media Center Say you don't want that Media Center PC in your living room. No problem. The new HP Media Center Extender sits atop your TV and/or stereo and communicates with the PC in the basement --or wherever you've squirreled it away in your house. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1189-1-1-371668-111956-1 ============================================================ Column: Microsoft's Growing Family Yeah, but what's the big deal about Media Centers? Why would you want them? What are they like to own? Our editor-in-chief, Michael J. Miller, has been living and working with the OS and these systems for a while and can tell you the real deal. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1189-1-1-371668-111959-1 ============================================================ Product News: An Ultralight Ultraportable Sharp's latest Actius laptop is one of the lightest we've ever seen. Get the details on the ultra-ultralight PC in our product-announcement report. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1189-1-1-371668-111962-1 ============================================================ Opinion: Can E-Voting Be Trusted? With one of the most important presidential elections in decades just weeks away, executive editor Lance Ulanoff is taking a fresh look at e-voting concerns raised by a research team at Johns Hopkins University. He's spoken to one of the researchers and to the folks at Diebold Voting Systems to try to separate fact from fiction. Learn why people are so worried about e-voting and what can and should be done about it in Lance's latest column. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1189-1-1-371668-111965-1 ============================================================ Review: A Good Value for 19-Inch Buyers The Samsung SyncMaster 910T is a thin-bezel monitor with some premium features, but it also has some shortcomings that take a little shine off its appeal. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1189-1-1-371668-111968-1 ============================================================ Review: A Very Good Midrange Pocket PC Dell is quietly building a track record of decent PDAs with extras that you sometimes cannot find anywhere else. 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