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Rick Rizner, Chris Manners
Sony's VAIO VGC-RC110G Media Center PC works well for the casual or intermediate multimedia enthusiast interested in editing and organizing photos, video, or music, and then playing their creations on a TV, LCD, or sound system.
Manipulating digital content requires computing horsepower, and the VGC-RC110G, while not the fastest system we've seen, should easily meet the needs of video editing and DVD hobbyists. Equipped with a 3-GHz Pentium D 830 CPU, 1GB of DDR2-533 SDRAM, and an Asus EAX300LE graphics card using the ATI Radeon X300 chip set, the system earned a WorldBench 5 score of 87, comparable to the marks of other systems running on the same CPU. Serious game players may want to look elsewhere, however: Frame rates in our tests running Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Unreal Tournament were lackluster. But casual game play on Return to Castle Wolfenstein at 1024 by 768 resolution with 32-bit color was smooth and enjoyable.
The system comes with some useful...