Paul the winner of the HP HDX Dragon Entertainment PC promised to let me know how he got on with the system and true to his word over the weekend he emailed me with this first thoughts. Paul has kindly given me permission to publish his thoughts, so consider this a guest review

I thought Iwould just drop you a quick email to let you know how it’s going with the HDX. 
First thing I did when i got home was figure out where i was going to put the thing it is huge!!!  As i think a few reviews have said this is not a laptop if you even try to put it on your lap you realise how top heavy it is, desk only i’m afraid. The Piano black looks good as does the motif on the case. The media controls on the top edge are touch sensitive and when you get used to them work well but it does pick up finger prints very easily hence the included cleaning cloth.  The screen is probably the best bit about the HDX the resolution is very good easily watchable from a few feet away, blueray playback is pretty impressive too but I haven’t had a chance to give it a full test the playback happens in HP’s own media center not VMC.
The machine did boot a little slow to start with but I un-installed some of the bloatware and things soon were running at full speed, I swapped Norton for AVG and Comodo firewall.  I’ve only installed one plugin on this machine which is MyMovies client I use my TV HTPC as the db server so only need the client edition the set up was very easy with full instructions on the wiki. It works very well with seamless streaming of movies over wifi.
I have also managed to share my recorded TV from my TV HTPC to the HDX it works really well I used mikes guide: http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/mike/archive/2007/01/06/how-to-share-recorded-tv-with-other-media-centers.aspx , it would be nice if we could get this to live refresh rather than restarting VMC, why did microsoft not do this straight out the box?
We are going to use the TV HTPC as the main recording device but i have installed a USB DVB-T tuner for live tv in the HDX. 

Thanks for the review Paul, glad are you enjoying the machine!

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