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'The Acer Aspire 8930's media controls are intuitive and reasonably responsive, and the volume slider is, well, fun.'

'The hard drive is easily replaceable, and the motherboard supports a pair of DDR3 SO-DIMMs (and with a 64-bit version of Vista and the shrinking cost of 4GB SO-DIMMS, expansion is a viable option down the road).'

'The bezel is a little thick, but in my tests the lower edge was elevated enough to give me a good, full view of the screen even with my meaty paws typing away at the keyboard.'

'if buyers don't like the traditional white or black case, they can opt for red, blue, green, yellow, brown, or pink'

'Build quality is excellent, and the keyboard benefits from a numeric keypad on the right'

'cleaner and refined look'

'The large screen is good for watching movies and playing computer games.'

'Dell goes full-throttle with its latest XPS notebook, the M1730, which packs an Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor, dual Nvidia graphics processors in an SLI configuration, and Ageia's PhysX controller, which theoretically makes games look more realistic than before.'

'new 17-inch high-performance gaming notebook'

'It's the first laptop ever to use a dedicated Ageia PhysX processing unit alongside two separate high-end graphics cards.'

'most other convertible notebooks'

'traditional notebook'

'The Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513 is a 9.5-pound, general-purpose notebook computer'

'The base of the heavy 9.4-pound system has four ringlike "feet" to absorb shocks and vibrations'

'It's powered by a 6-cell rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which has a battery life of up to 3 hours'

'Dell goes full-throttle with its latest XPS notebook, the M1730, which packs an Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor, dual Nvidia graphics processors in an SLI configuration, and Ageia's PhysX controller, which theoretically makes games look more realistic than before.'

'new 17-inch high-performance gaming notebook'

'It's the first laptop ever to use a dedicated Ageia PhysX processing unit alongside two separate high-end graphics cards.'