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Popcorn With Your Portable

Catch a movie with one of the new wide-screen notebook models.

Melissa Perenson

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Wide is in. EMachines' M5305 is the latest entrant in a small but growing class of wide-screen notebooks, and the first to earn a spot on our Top 15 Notebook PCs chart. Credit goes to its relatively low price and solid performance. In recent months, we've looked at a smattering of notebooks with wide-aspect screens--models such as the Dell Inspiron 8500 and Apple's massive 17-inch PowerBook G4--and more models with wide-aspect screens are on the way from Toshiba, HP, and Gateway. With a wide-screen model, you'll get more room to tile Word or Excel windows alongside one another, or to display DVD movies.

Freelance writers Dan Littman, Mick Lockey, and Carla Thornton, and PC World reviews editors Richard Baguley, Eric Butterfield, Rebecca Freed, Alexandra Krasne, Kalpana Narayanamurthi, Melissa J. Perenson, and Alan Stafford contributed to the Top 100 section this month. Ulrike Diehlmann, Julio Giannobile, Elliott Kirschling, Jeff Kuta, Tony K. Leung, and Thomas Luong of the PC World Test Center performed testing on the products reviewed in this section, with logistical support from Julian Weatherby.
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