Sony VAIO XL3

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Review By: Juan Bridger


Sony's VAIO XL3 Digital Living System is a welcome improvement to previous versions of Sony's high-end home theater PC. The multidisc DVD changer is thankfully absent, and the PC itself comes with almost all the features we expect from a modern, living room-style computer. Similar to its older Digital Living System PCs, Sony isn't afraid to charge a lot for the XL3, which will run you $3,300.

For that price, we wish there was a bit more computer here. That issue and the fact that the XL3 only has a single CableCard tuner (which means only limited PVR functionality) hurt our enthusiasm for this system. Overall though, it's expertly designed and about as well-equipped as any convergence hound might like.

There's obviously a lot more to a home theater PC than its core hardware, but the spec sheet for the XL3 looks as follows: 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 processor 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM 256MB GeForce 7600 GTL graphics card two 250GB, 7,200rpm hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration. That's not a bad collection of hardware, although we might expect more given the XL3's $3,300 price tag.

The graphics could use a boost We understand why many people might like a slimmer home theater PC, but Sony's smaller case also means that you have to sacrifice expandability. The XL3 can only accommodate a single half-height PCI Express graphics card, which comes in the form of a GeForce 7600 GTL card. That card, with a single HDMI port as the only means for video output, handles Blu-ray movies very well, and we had no complaints about the image quality or stuttering.

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