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CyberPower Media Center Ultra EditionThis affordable Media Center PC looks good in the living room and offers performance you'd normally find on a high-priced system.
Rick Rizner, Chris Manners
The CyberPower Media Center Ultra Edition does a good job of straddling the divide between the living room and the office. The clean design of the aluminum desktop case looks right at home on a living-room shelf or cabinet, but the system's quick performance and easy expandability make it just as welcome on any office desktop. Priced at $1299 without a monitor--$1698 with the ViewSonic VX924 19- inch display that accompanied our review system--the Ultra Edition is substantially less expensive than many other Media Center PCs.
Like any well-equipped Media Center PC, the Ultra Edition has dual TV tuners (but neither is an ATSC tuner for bringing in over- the-air HDTV signals). It also comes with a remote control and an assortment of audio and video connectors including DVI, VGA,...