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Sony PCV-90 For a Pentium-200 with 3-D surround sound and dozens of bundled titles like Quicken, Encarta and MechWarrior 2, look no further than...
...winner Encarta 97 Deluxe Encyclopedia...
With 31,000 entries, hundreds of photos, and sound and video clips, Encarta 97 Deluxe Edition is the ultimate home reference title. If you know what you're looking for, the easy search form takes you to the right place fast. If you're just browsing, you can look for information by sifting through categories such as jazz greats, 20th century thinkers or world culture. The media gallery treats you to snippets of everything from a Beethoven concerto to the Bangladeshi national anthem, along with videos of a Kennedy speech on the Cuban missile crisis and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda...
...currently interested in risky and expensive ventures on the scale of this project. For instance, Microsoft's CD-ROM on the collection of Britain's National Gallery is a once-over-lightly affair, with some useful student-level cross-references but no real scholarly depth; the same company's Encarta encyclopedia is done with sound-and-image-bite superficiality, with few entries longer than 500 words...
...clear. Topping most wish lists are consumer-electronics items ranging from Apple laptop computers that can cost thousands of dollars to kid's gadgets like Ricochet, a big-wheeled, radio-controlled car by Hasbro that sells for about $55. Educational cd-rom titles, such as Reader Rabbit and the Encarta encyclopedia, and videogame players like Sony's new 32-bit PlayStation ($300) are also likely to be in big demand this year...