Searching for the perfect HTPC

The important questions to ask in 2007 are "What is a media center?" and "What should it be?" - and, depending on the vendor you approach, you will get a different answer. What it should be is the device you use to store all of your digital media from music to movies, from snapshots to filmed family memories. From this "center", you then serve out this media to the various rooms of your house, your personal music players and - the one place most seem to forget - your car..