Specifications

25 Pipeline
25 Reputation filtering takes on spam.
25 Wireless hot spots are on the rise.
26 A new road map for microprocessors.
26 A facial vocabulary for game characters.
26 Backup data—on the moon?
28
COMING ATTRACTIONS: HP DVD Movie Writer DC3000, BenQ
monitor, Gateway Connected DVD Player, McAfee’s SpamKiller 5.0.
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Contents.1
Shoot, Scan, Print
page 95
Build Your Own PC!
page 80
File-Sharing Services
page 30
THE INDEPENDENT GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY SEPTEMBER 16, 2003
www.pcmag.com
SHOOT, SCAN, PRINT: 30 TIPS FOR DOING IT RIGHT
BUILD
YOUR
OWN PC!
FIRST LOOKS:
The Secrets of
Anonymous Mail
Find the Best
Broadband ISPs
HELP SERVICES: WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
TWO
NEW
PLUS
CREATE A CUSTOM, KILLER
SYSTEM EASILY…AND SAVE BIG $$$
17-INCH
NOTEBOOKS
FILE-SHARING SERVICES
THAT HIDE YOUR ID
AMERICA ONLINE 9.0:
A MAJOR OVERHAUL
ON THE COVER
First Looks: 17-Inch
Notebooks page 42
The Best Broadband ISPs
page 102
Anonymous Mail page 68
Help Services page 137
American Online 9.0
page 33
SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 VOL. 22 NO. 16
www.pcmag.com
75% of PC Magazine readers have high-speed Internet connections at home, according to our latest survey.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
49
Feedback
138 Backspace
30
First Looks
30 Blubster 2.5
31 Filetopia 3.04
32 Morpheus 3.2
32 Spy Sweeper 2.1
33 AOL 9.0 Optimized
34 HP Pavilion zd7000
34 Toshiba Satellite P25-S507
36 Canon PowerShot G5
36 Macromedia Contribute 2
38 Gateway Profile 4X
M
38 Pioneer DVR-A06
40 Palm Tungsten/T2
40 Microsoft Windows Powered PCS Phone
SH-G1000 by Hitachi
42 Dell Latitude X300
42 HP Compaq Business Notebook nc4000
44 WebSphere Commerce Professional
Edition 5.5
46 InBoxer
46 AlienCamel 1.0
COVER STORY
80
Why not build
your next PC
yourself? With a
little spare time
and initiative, you
can build a top-of-the-line
screamer or a budget-
conscious workhorse
with an exceptional
price/performance ratio.
Follow our step-by-step
pictorial guide as we build
one of each and weigh the
pros and cons.
Build
or
Buy
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY JOE SAPUTO