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8.8 out of 10
KEF KHT-3005 (black)
The KEF KHT-3005 is one compact, beautifully designed speaker package with solid aluminum satellites that feature unique driver technology to produce incredible clarity. Meanwhile, the equally astounding dual 10-inch, 250-watt powered subwoofer delivers ultradeep bass. Full Review
8.8 out of 10
KEF KHT-3005 (silver)
The KEF KHT-3005 is one compact, beautifully designed speaker package with solid aluminum satellites that feature unique driver technology to produce incredible clarity. Meanwhile, the equally astounding dual 10-inch, 250-watt powered subwoofer delivers ultradeep bass. Full Review
8.7 out of 10
Sonos Digital Music System (Bundle 130)
Two-room wireless digital audio system, expandable to as many as 32 rooms; wireless color-screen remote utilizes iPod-style scrollwheel; easy setup and installation; includes audio inputs for accessing third-party audio sources; streams the same audio to all rooms or different music to each room; excellent compatibility includes lossless file formats, Sirius, Rhapsody and Pandora premium streaming services, music purchased from PlaysForSure and Zune music stores, and free Internet radio stations. Full Review
8.7 out of 10
Pioneer Kuro PDP-5080 HD
This 50-inch plasma TV displays an exceedingly deep shade of black with excellent shadow detail; clean image with little noise; "smooth" video-processing mode removes most judder; excellent antireflective screen; sleek, minimalist styling; removable speaker; superb connectivity with four HDMI inputs and one PC input; CableCard compatible with TV Guide EPG. Full Review
8.7 out of 10
Sony VPL-VW200
This projector has exceptional color fidelity. It produces a deep shade of black with excellent shadow detail. It also has a superb feature package, including panel alignment and blacking, and it has solid connectivity. Full Review
8.7 out of 10
Logitech Squeezebox Duet
Network digital audio system includes excellent wireless remote with color screen and scroll wheel control; supports Wi-Fi and Ethernet home networks; compatible with virtually all non-DRM audio file formats, provides access to PC-based music files (on Windows, Mac, and Linux machines) as well as PC-free Internet radio, podcasts, and premium online music services including Rhapsody, Sirius, and Pandora; excellent online account integration; expandable to multiple rooms. Full Review
8.6 out of 10
Wi-Ex zBoost YX510-PCS-CEL cell phone signal extender
The Wi-Ex zBoost YX510-PCS-CEL significantly boosts your cell phone reception and is easy to operate. Also, it uses a wireless connection to your phone. Full Review
8.6 out of 10
Turbo Charge Tc2 portable cell phone charger
The Turbo Charge Tc2 portable cell phone charger successfully delivers emergency power to your cell phone. It's easy to use and comes with a couple of surprising features. Full Review
8.3 out of 10
Energizer Energi To Go (Samsung)
The Energizer Energi To Go is effective and easy to use. Full Review
9.3 out of 10
Canon EOS 1D Mark III
Extremely fast, 10-megapixel continuous shooting; very low noise; highly customizable; well-designed body with weather sealing; 3-inch LCD; abundant optional accessories. Full Review
9.0 out of 10
Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Combination of fast drive mode and high resolution; large buffer; highly customizable; saves custom camera setups to media, supports cards greater than 2GB. Full Review
9.0 out of 10
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Very low noise, high quality images; 21.1 megapixels; live view shooting; pro-level build-quality and performance. Full Review
9.1 out of 10
HP Pavilion Slimline S3330f
Outstanding price-to-feature ratio; Blu-ray/HD DVD combo drive; small, flexible case; great performance thanks to a speedy dual-core AMD CPU Full Review
8.7 out of 10
Dell XPS 630
Fastest gaming performance in its price category (mostly); distinctive chassis; lots of expandability; Nvidia software makes overclocking easy. Full Review
8.5 out of 10
Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
A minor specification update results in some significant performance gains; graphics upgrade an option on this 24-inch model; sleek, polished design didn't receive an update, but we won't start clamoring for a new design until the current one is at least 12 months old. Full Review
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Roland Hall @ Jan 26th 2008 4:29AM
I have noticed no reviews for the ssd model. The optical drive problem is solved for 99 bucks. There is no laptop with a great battery that will last forever, or its more like a desktop with a handle, and i know of nobody with a laptop who carries a spare battery. The usb can be solved by a hub. You are going to get a case for the laptop, so having a few peripherals and carrying them with you won't be an issue. The issue is going to be the disk space. If you notice the time machine is shipping out just in time so you can't return you mac book air when the time capsule gets here. I have a mac book pro now, pretty new, and use a lacie 500 gig external hard drive for my iTunes media. You can't use it wirelessly by plugging into an airport and download music or movied. You can watch them and everything works great once they are there, but you must be wired to download, will this remain true to the air and time capsule, certainly i hope not. I am going to ask apple to hold my air and ship the same time as the time capsule, because i go the ssd model, so i am going to have to keep my iTunes and iPhoto data on the time capsule. I have to know this will work correct. Also at first i was planning on selling my mac book pro, but the more i read, these MBP's are basically a desktop replacement, so i might just set it up on my desk at home and use as a desktop replacement and use the air, for all my computing, which amount to internet browsing, iMovie, iDvd, Toast Titanium, Office 08, and iTunes and iPhoto. So something is going to have to give drive wise, so iTunes and iPhoto must be able to live on the time capsule, or more than likely it will get returned. But just like everything else apple makes, its so sexy and hard to resist. I just hope you can download iTunes and import photos to iPhoto straight to the time capsule. If this can be done. You air has a tera byte harddrive in its home network, so it could possible be a total replacement for the Mac Book Pro, but beware, you have 14 days to return the air, and the time capsule ships 14 days after the air. I don't believe in coincidences. So beware, maybe ask apple like me to ship them together so you have both, cause if you bough one without the other you aren't too smart, and if you get them shipped together 14 days of computing will probably give you a chance to do everything you do with you computer, so you can give the air a full testdrive, and still have the ability to return it. Cause i can tell you now, get a mac book pro, and you have the best computer in the world hand down. There is nothing this machine can't do, and it isn't that big either, maybe an inch or slightly over the entire front to back, and you won't be sorry or be lacking anything with it. But get the air, spend the money for the solid state drive, you are giving up a little hardrive, but 80 gigs isn't enough anyway, the timecapsule is going to have to be your harddrive, and it is suppossed to be able to be. Watch out for the return policy and the difference in ship date and you should be able to test drive a air, without risk. But the newest technology is the flash hard drives, or ssd's and the air with the 1.8 mhz and ssd harddrive, should be pretty fast, i don't care what the pro's are saying, i don't think there will be a noticable loss of speed between a mac book pro and a ssd air with the time capsule. Wirelesss N should serve songs and photos, plenty fast, and you are more than likely already storing them on an external harddrive, unless you spung for a monster harddrive in you mac book pro, I went with 160, and i couldn't fit all my iTunes library (which is huge). My photos are still on local drive, but they are growing in size and going to have to move to external drive soon. I think the top end ssd air is worth a try, i wouldn't bother if your not going to take advantage of the drive. That means aboslutely no moving pieces inside you air, so really nothing to break.
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