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Editors' note: Sony has changed its warranty policy and no longer requires you to register your product in order to extend the coverage from 90 days to a full year. Now, all Sony desktops are covered with a standard one-year warranty right out of the box. We have updated the review and adjusted the ratings accordingly. Sony's VAIO RS desktop line has always offered a wealth of multimedia features at fair prices, but until now, Sony has never supplied the systems with the needed performance to smoothly run intensive audio- and video-editing apps. With the VAIO PCV-RS430G, Sony finally delivers a midrange system capable of its intended use.

Though not for gamers, ATI's budget Radeon 9200 graphics card is a good fit for multimedia chores such as editing video and recording TV. The $1,399 system (the bundled 15-inch LCD adds another $329) ships with Sony's Giga Pocket software, a TV tuner, a 120GB hard drive, and a DVD+/-RW drive-letting the RS430G function as both a DVR and a TV-archiving solution. For creative types with a multitude of digital media, the VAIO RS430G is well worth considering. /sc/30547513-2-200-DT2.gif' width='200' height='150' border='0' / Your external expansion options abound with the RS430G. The VAIO PCV-RS430G wears Sony's familiar and eye-pleasing 7.7-by-15-15.4-inch white-and-silver case, complete with clean, rounded lines. The system provides an array of external connections for peripheral devices, with ports conveniently located on both the front and the rear of the system for easy access.

Rear ports include one six-pin iLink (Sony's name for FireWire) port, a parallel port, four USB 2.0 ports, a 10/100 Ethernet port, plus microphone, speaker, line-in, and S/PDIF ports. The ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card provides an analog VGA connector, which we used to connect the flat-panel display, a DVI port for digital flat panels, and a composite TV-output connector. Just below the graphics card sits a TV-tuner card that provides an S-Video input, a coaxial (UHF/VHF) input, and composite audio/video inputs (red, white, and yellow RCA connectors), allowing the tuner to receive standard video signals from diverse sources, such as your TV cable, a VCR, or a camcorder. A 56Kbps modem port rounds out the rear connections.

/sc/30547513-2-200-DT3.gif' width='200' height='150' border='0' alt=' / /sc/30547513-2-200-DT4.gif' width='200' height='150' border='0' alt=' / All full up: the system has a compact case and loads of features, leaving little room to grow. A small hatch on the lower front of the system hides another three USB 2.0 ports, a four-pin iLink port, and another set of S-Video and composite-video inputs. The media-card reader works with Sony's own Memory Stick, of course, and can also read CompactFlash Type I and Type II, IBM's MicroDrive, and SmartMedia memory. The case's outer cover is bolted to the chassis as a single piece, so you'll need a screwdriver to remove it for upgrades.

Once inside, however, you won't find much to work with. Of the system's two 5.25-inch drive bays, one external 3.5-inch bay, and two internal 3.5-inch bays, only the second internal bay is free for another hard drive.

Similarly, only one of the system's PCI slots is free (one is used by the TV tuner; the other is obstructed by the modem). And even with three cooling fans inside, the box itself is quiet. Based on Intel's 865PE (Springdale) chipset, a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor, and 512MB of 333MHz memory, the Sony VAIO PCV-RS430G is no powerhouse, but it is a strong midrange performer that will get your multimedia work done in a timely fashion. Likewise, the system's ATI Radeon 9200 card is fine for gaming novices.

Sony Giga Pocket Tv Tuner Drivers For Mac

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The 120GB Seagate hard drive provides ample storage for games and other files, but extensive picture and video collections will consume that space quickly. The RS430G configuration is one of three ready-to-ship models in the RS series and therefore is not customizable. Sony offers a roomy 200GB hard drive, however, as an option on the custom configuration. In addition to Windows XP Home, Sony ships the PCV-RS430G with an impressive multimedia software bundle that includes the company's own Click to DVD video-editing-and-creation software and Giga Pocket TV-recording software, as well as Microsoft Works 7.0. Working in tandem with the included TV-tuner card, Giga Pocket lets the system function as a DVR. The software walks you through the TV-channel setup and provides a timer/recording wizard that makes it easy to select the date, the time, and the channel to record, even while you're away from the PC.

Giga Pocket then records shows to the hard drive; you need to use the Click to DVD app to burn TV content to disc. Sony also includes PictureGear Studio for photo editing and archiving and SonicStage for music management-two easy-to-use apps for basic chores. The RS430G's multiformat DVD-recordable drive handles all CD and DVD burning, as it can burn DVD-R and +R discs at 4X speed and CD-Rs at 16X. The system's second drive is a standard 16X DVD-ROM drive, which you can use to watch DVDs or burn disc-to-disc copies with the DVD burner.

Completing the picture is a floppy drive. /sc/30547513-2-200-DT1.gif' width='200' height='150' border='0' alt=' / The DVD burner records to both DVD+R and DVD-R. /sc/30547513-2-200-DT5.gif' width='200' height='150' border='0' alt=' / The bundled 15-inch display is sharp and stylish. We were surprised by the sharp image on the 15-inch flat-panel display that came with our test system. Sony sells its monitors separately, however, and the snappy SDM-HS53 adds $329 to the total cost of the system. The system does include a two-piece speaker set that we found strictly pedestrian but adequate for basic gaming, Voice over IP use, and MP3 playback. Audiophiles will want a system that at least includes a subwoofer; Sony offers a number of Creative I-Trigue 2.1 sets on the RS series' customizable configuration.

Application performance We generally don't expect much performance out of a VAIO desktop, simply because Sony seems more concerned with the user experience than with speed. After running the VAIO PCV-RS340G through our benchmarks, however, we came away pleasantly surprised. Considering that it uses 512MB of 333MHz DDR SDRAM as opposed to 400MHz memory, we expected to see below-average numbers. Instead, with a score of 277 in SysMark 2002, the RS340G performed slightly above average for its category. It was especially impressive in the office-productivity portion of SysMark 2002, performing almost identically to the, which runs on speedier 400MHz memory. Overall, the RS430G is an impressive midrange machine capable of handling a variety of multimedia tasks.

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