HP Digital Entertainment Center Z556

When PC Mag says that a product should top our shopping list, we take the recommendation seriously, so their recent review of the HP Digital Entertainment Center z556 Media Center PC should be helpful to anyone looking for a Windows MCE solution....

This latest system, like the z555, comes with a 3.0-GHz Pentium 4 640 processor, a 250GB hard drive, nVidia GeForce 6600 graphics, 512MB of memory, and a dual-layer DVD burner with LightScribe, the company's technology for burning labels on discs. HP...

At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, one of the big watchwords was “convergence.” As you'll read in our comprehensive show report in the next issue, convergence products were everywhere, including lots of mediacenter PCs. The only problem with most...

Back in the age of acid-wash jeans, my dad brought home our first home computer: a MacPlus with 512 kilobytes of RAM. I would stay up late into the night playing Zork and Planetfall, all the light radiating from its small CRT screen keeping me warm. We...

Back in the age of acid-wash jeans, my dad brought home our first home computer: a MacPlus with 512 kilobytes of RAM. I would stay up late into the night playing Zork and Planetfall, all the light radiating from its small CRT screen keeping me warm. We...

Introduction Behind HDTV, "convergence" is one of the most bandied-about buzzwords in the consumer electronics industry. Companies large and small have deluged the market with products designed to meld the PC and A/V environments, from tuner cards that...