Advantages: Stunning to look at and fits in with most home cinema systems Disadvantages: Hardware could be better and quite expensive
The Sony Vaio VGX-XL100 is the latest home cinema endeavour by the world's leading electronics company. First of all, the VGX-XL100 is actually one of the best Media Centre PCs on the market and would be more than adequate for the average consumer who wants a space saving, all-in-one media solution. It comes with a P4 D 2.8 GHz processor, 1Gb of DDR2 ram, 250Gb hard drive, a GeForce 6600 graphics card and a built in free view TV card. This impressive ... ...price, albeit without the stunning Sony case, which, to people concerned about cosmetics and worried wives alike may be worth the extra money.
Now we come to the downsides, the VGX-XL100 comes not with an instruction manual, but an instruction sheet. A two sided A2 sheet with pretty illustrations is all you get to set up your media centre. A full manual is available for download on the Sony Website but it is hardly useful unless you can print out ...
Aelred2k6 18.06.2006
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