VAIO Digital Living System

It looks like a stereo receiver, but it's a PC from Sony. The rack-style new Sony VAIO Digital Living System (VGX-XL3) is a full high definition 1080 Media Center PC with Blu-ray Disc technology and DVR capability. It's designed to integrate with your living room entertainment system and has a wireless keyboard and remote control, HDMI for single-cable connectivity and Windows Vista Home Premium. Apart from the normal PC functions, you can use it as a HD player and video recorder which records directly to the hard disk or Blu-ray discs.

Here are hardware specs:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400 2.13GHz
• Memory: 2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 (3GB max.)
• Hard drive: 500GB 7200rpm SATA
• Optical drive: Blu-ray drive
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GTL with 527MB Video RAM
• Networking: Gigabit Ethernet and IEEE 802.11abg
• Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium

It will be available in the U.S. market from mid-April with the price tag of US$3,300 (NZ$4,500). The closest one we have here is the new Sony VAIO Lifestyle Panel PC.