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221-Hp V6* • up to 32 Hwy Mpg** • Class-Exclusive 6-Speed Automatic Transmission† • More Innovation from Ford *Optional on SE and SEL 221-hp V6* • Up to 32 hwy mpg** • Class-exclusive 6-speed automatic transmission† • More innovation from Ford *Optional on SE and SEL. **EPA estimated 24 city/32 hwy mpg (I4/automatic transmission). †Class is midsize sedan. WINDOWS VISTA DITCH MA BELL? APPLE + INTEL START GOES WE SHOW YOU SURPRISING AWOL HOW TEST RESULTS Build Your Perfect PC www.pcmag.com March 7, 2006 Faster than Dell, Cooler than Apple, Cheaper than Sony WIN OUR CUSTOM LEGO PC! For More Details, See Page 99 We turned our TV into a photo album with Yahoo! Photos. Now with Intel® Viiv™ technology, there’s a whole new kind of PC that brings your digital content together where it belongs.* Upload all of your digital photos to Yahoo! Photos** and watch them on the big screen, in your living room.† To fi nd out how this leap in home entertainment can change your world, go to www.intel.com/viiv Movies Music Gaming Photos †Remote may be sold separately. *Many Intel® ViivTM technology-based usage models will require additional hardware devices, software or services. System and component performance and functionality will vary depending on your specific hardware and software configurations. See www.intel.com/go/viiv_info for more information. ©2006 Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Viiv, Intel. Leap ahead., and the Intel. Leap ahead. logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All rights reserved. **Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Toshiba recommends Windows XP Professional. Satellite Smart notebooks for every budget. Starting at $699 Tecra The reliability business demands. Starting at $999 Portégé Thin, light and powerful. Starting at $1,599 Qosmio™ 4-in-1 personal entertainment center. Starting at $1,699 libretto Power of a desktop in the palm of your hand. Starting at $1,799 Portégé R200 Notebook PC Style and performance come together in an elegant ultraportable. Intel Pentium M Processor Ultra Low Voltage 753 for faster execution of instructions at lower power Genuine Microsoft Windows XP Professional Toshiba EasyGuard™ enhancements1 for increased mobile security, system integrity, network connectivity and overall ease of use Starting at $1,999 ToshibaByDesign.com/R200 1.800.TOSHIBA 1. Toshiba EasyGuard technology comprises a number of features some of which may or may not be available on a particular Toshiba notebook depending on the model selected. See www.easyguard.toshiba.com for detailed information. 2. Weight may vary. See Weight Legal Footnote at www.info.toshiba.com. 3. Battery life may vary. See Battery Life Legal Footnote at www.info.toshiba.com. 4. Hard drive capacity may vary. 1 Gigabyte (GB) means 109 = 1,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. See Hard Disk Drive Capacity Legal Footnote at www.info.toshiba.com. 5. Toshiba’s shock absorption technology provides higher impact protection for your system as compared to Toshiba systems without similar shock protection features based on Toshiba’s drop tests. Toshiba’s standard limited warranty terms and limitations apply. Visit www.warranty.toshiba.com for details. libretto, Portégé, Satellite and Tecra are registered trademarks and EasyGuard and Qosmio are trademarks of Toshiba Magnesium Alloy Chassis Exterior casework material used in aerospace manufacturing maximizes durability without 4 adding unnecessary weight. 60GB Hard Drive Toshiba micro-engineering fits 60GB of data in a tiny 1.8-inch drive. Thin. Light. Goes for hours. 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All rights reserved. ᮋ www.pcmag.com CONTENTS First Looks MARCH 7, 2006 • VOL. 25 NO. 4 28 Online Mapping Services COVER STORY • A9.com Maps (beta) 97 • AOL Local • Google Local • Windows Live Local (beta) • Yahoo! Local Maps (beta) YOU CAN 32 Desktop PCs • Apple iMac (Intel Core Duo) • Apple Power Mac G5 Quad K 34 Digital Cameras • Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T9 DO IT! • Canon PowerShot SD30 Digital Elph K Putting together a PC is far easier than many • Canon PowerShot SD550 Digital Elph home projects: You need only a small work- • Kodak EasyShare V570 space, a weekend or so to spare, some simple 44 Mobile Devices tools, and standard parts. Intel or AMD? nVidia • Palm Treo 700w 46 HDTVs or ATI? Single hard drive or RAID? As chief • Philips 42PF9830A/37 designer, you get • HP Pavilion LC3700N K 48 Mobile Devices to choose the • Philips GoGear HDD6330 M components to 50 Speakers fi t your needs. • Creative TravelDock Zen Micro • Logitech Z-5450 Digital 52 Notebook PCs • Dell Inspiron E1705 M • Sony VAIO VGN-AX570G 55 Photo Printers • Canon Selphy CP510 Compact • Samsung SPP-2040 Digital 58 Software • eTrust Internet Security Suite • BullGuard Internet Security Suite 6 • DivX Create Bundle • muvee autoProducer 5 • Xara Xtreme • Ovation for PowerPoint Small Business 80 Desktop PCs • Gateway E-4500S • HP Compaq DC7600 CMT • Lenovo ThinkCentre A51 Ultra Small ON THE COVER Windows Vista: Start 81 John Dickinson on Small Business Goes AWOL page 136 82 Hard Drives Ditch Ma Bell? page 118 Build Your • ABSmini (40GB) Perfect PC Intel iMac • Maxtor OneTouch II SBE page 97 page 32 83 What to Buy • The best products in one place. COVER: LEGO SCULPTURE BY NATHAN SAWAYA NATHAN BY SCULPTURE LEGO COVER: www.pcmag.com MARCH 7, 2006 PC MAGAZINE 7 About the Cover: Our Lego PC BUILD IT 111 A Homemade Media Center PC The project we’ve devised has some- thing for the whole family. HDTV. Music. Playing and making DVDs. Gaming. Working with photos and VOIP video. We step you through picking >the parts and piecing them together. 118 Ditch Your Phone Company? Switching to Voice over IP phone service can save you a ton of money, but is it worth the hassle? One of our editors made the switch, with mixed results. The greatest ideas often originate in the smallest Pipeline places. Take our Lego PC Cars 25 Ultra wideband is nearly here. (please!). When we fi rst 84 Mercury Mariner hybrid contacted the stupendous Harman-Kardon Drive+Play Lego artist Nathan Sawaya Delphi’s blind-spot detector Future Watch (shown), we had one request. 85 Bill Howard 26 A high-tech cockpit tour. We asked him to build a PC for the cover of this special issue Solutions Opinions dedicated to the fi ne art of 132 Better Ways to Label Your Discs: 13 Jim Louderback do-it-yourself PCs. When we Paper disc labels are out. We 21 Michael J. Miller: saw the work of art Nathan explore three methods of printing Forward Thinking had constructed (using more labels and art directly onto CDs 91 John C. Dvorak than 2,500 bricks in a variety and DVDs. 93 John C. Dvorak’s Inside Track 95 Bill Machrone of colors—and one Bob the 136 Vista Revealed: The Start button is dead. Long live the Start button! Builder for effect), a new idea 137 SMB Boot Camp: Without a good germinated: Could we build a fi rewall, your business may be Gaming + Culture working PC into a shell like this? defenseless. But which one is 152 Rated V for Violence: You’re darn right we could. right for you? Some video games are facing And we could give it away, 138 Security Watch: Phishing is a signifi cant opposition from too, to one lucky reader. Could it fast-growing sport and you are legislators. the prey. Protect yourself from 155 Gearlog: Take a space gander be you? Hit our Web site for the this scourge. with SkyScout Personal contest entry form, tons 139 Ask Loyd: How to choose the Planetarium. of photos of the working LEGO right RAID level; run multiple PC, and an interview with video cards on the same machine. Master Builder Nathan himself. 141 Ask Neil: How to schedule a task Also in This Issue for idle time, format Excel dates 87 Feedback >go.pcmag.com/legopc within text, and more. 156 Backspace 8 PC MAGAZINE MARCH 7, 2006 www.pcmag.com Panasonic recommends Microsoft ® Windows® XP Professional for Business executive sweet Durable, ultra-lightweight Toughbooks from Panasonic.
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