The NEC Powermate P5000 is another not-your-average-PC we tested this month. Unlike the living room VAIO, the Powermate P5000 is destined for a more up close and personal usage model. This could be in the bedroom (on your bedside table), in the study or even the kitchen. The main selling point of the Powermate P5000 is its lack of messy cables; all it needs is a single power cable. In countries like Japan where space in the home (or the lack thereof) is a major issue, PCs like the Powermate P5000 make good sense. Users can just unplug it and move it to another location within the home.
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The new HP Compaq DC7800 Ultra-slim Desktop is an impressive 46 percent smaller than the previous generation of HP DC7700 Ultra-slim Desktop, shrinking its footprint while at the same time providing more power for demanding applications users.
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Apple’s effort looks slicker than an oiled up Italian on a Maldives beach, but is less likely to steal your girlfriend. The only thing putting a banana skin under its swagger is a puny 40GB hard drive, which holds 50 hours of a video - a 160-gigger costs an extra dollar.
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Out in the Far East for a while, the Sony Vaio TP-1 is finally strutting its rounded stuff on these shores, from October. What’s good about it? Just look at it - it’s like a birthday cake for someone named VAIO, or a huge aspirin for alleviating VAIO fever. That aside, you’ve got a 500GB hard drive, a TV tuner with EPG for planning viewing two weeks in advance, and an HDMI socket for pumping Hi-Def footie to your plasma. Start clearing a circular space in your lounge now.

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Acer’s Veriton L series of commercial desktop have been a trendsetter in term of its design and extremely small footprint. The new Aspire L3600 brings the same technology to consumers and continues to up the ante with a new chipset and faster processors which translates into better overall performance. This 3-litre Ultra Small Form Factor (USFF) design is particularly popular in certain markets like in workplaces with space constraints, but it is also gaining acceptance in the living room, thanks to its great looks and space-saving design. It also meets Intel’s VIIV platform requirements, but unfortunately this is not a good news to everybody because VIIV related online services are only available in North America.
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