The only thing wrong with using your PC and Windows Media Center as for watching movies, listening to music, or watching TV is that using a wireless keyboard and mouse to control your TV and media isn’t the best experience. 

Some of the early dedicated Media PCs came with remotes and some laptops still do, but since virtually every PC sold these days comes with a version of Vista that includes Media Center, there are way more media-capable PCs out there and not many remotes among them.

Adesso, who makes a variety of inexpensive but good quality input devices has stepped up to with the Vista Remote to provide an inexpensive solution.

Netbooks are the hottest portable computers today, so if you have one then you probably need a protective bag.  Most Netbooks are low cost and so have few accessories included.  Most of the bags and protective sleeves I have seen on the market are pretty basic.  At my local office supply store, I found one protective sleeve for a 10” Netbook that was only a simple neoprene sleeve with a metal zipper.  Simple and a little over priced at $29.99.

The Ultra Portable Netbook SlipSuit from Mobile Edge stands out from the crowd.  First off, it is still a soft, durable, and water-resistant neoprene sleeve, but with a few nice extra like a zippered pouch on the outside for your mobile phone, MP3 player, or power supply.  The zippers, on the outside pouch and main compartment, are nylon and each zipper even has a nice rubber tabbed, corded zipper-pull which is easy and comfortable to use.