Posted by: Jason O'Grady
Date: Saturday, November 20th, 2004, 15:09
Category: Archive

In Walt Mossberg’s Personal Tech column for the Wall Street Journal (“Laptops Get More Entertaining“) he points out a cool new feature available is some new PC laptops:

laptops that can play DVDs and CDs, or even act as a television, without booting up into your Windows operating system. These new machines have a separate entertainment-only mode that doesn’t require Windows or provide users with access to your programs and files.

Models that have the feature include: Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv1000 (US$1299) and Toshiba’s Qosmio E15-AV101 ($2,599).
Hopefully Apple is paying attention and builds something like this into the PowerBook G5.

In Walt Mossberg’s Personal Tech column for the Wall Street Journal (“Laptops Get More Entertaining“) he points out a cool new feature available is some new PC laptops:

laptops that can play DVDs and CDs, or even act as a television, without booting up into your Windows operating system. These new machines have a separate entertainment-only mode that doesn’t require Windows or provide users with access to your programs and files.

Models that have the feature include: Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv1000 (US$1299) and Toshiba’s Qosmio E15-AV101 ($2,599).
Hopefully Apple is paying attention and builds something like this into the PowerBook G5.