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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
At just 4.6 pounds, the WinBook X540 is the most portable combination laptop-DVD player we've seen yet. The Power Cinema launch button, which sits next to the power button, lets you watch DVDs, listen to CDs, or view a slide show of your digital photographs without having to first launch Windows. But the experience is not perfect.
The built-in stereo speakers--which emit sound from outlets on the laptop's short, sloped front--are weak, and the X540 has no volume or playback-control buttons. You have to use software to control music playback and to play DVD movies. We could also complain about the uneven-looking Power Cinema application, in which a polished Media Center-like CD player interface sits cheek by jowl with a DVD player that consists of a row of bare-bones buttons along the...