All the new Media Center PCs

By Peter Rojas


Bill Gates is giving his big speech right now at Microsoft's big "Digital Entertainment Anywhere" event in Los Angeles. We'll have a proper report for you soon, but in the meantime we figured we'd relay details about some of the new Media Center PCs unveiled there today. Besides Gateway's 820GM, which we just mentioned, here's what else is new:

  • Linksys formally introduced their new WMCE54AG Media
    Center Extender    .

  • HP showed off it's component-style Digital Entertainment PC (pictured above in all its glory), which is
    available in two versions, the z545-b, which comes with dual TV tuners, and the z540. They'll also have Media
    Center Extender out soon, called the x5400.

  • Dell announced that Media Center will be an option on their Dimension 8400 and Dimension XPS PCs, and will be
    extending that option to three other PCs and making it possible to order a Media Center PC without a TV tuner. Like
    Linksys and HP, they'll be offering a Media Center Extender of their own.

  • Sony says that they'll be offering the Media Center operating system as an option on their Vaio R series desktop
    PC.

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