The HP Pavilion Slimline s3330f PC ($950 direct) represents HP's effort at building a powerful and full-featured PC in a chassis that's about the size of a hardcover edition of Webster's Dictionary. It's almost completely wireless (aside from power and optional TV cable), and it's the desktop to get if you want more power and capabilities than a laptop or a Mac mini, but still want a compact PC with very little wasted space. Multimedia mavens and HD-addled couch potatoes will be among the users who'll want one. In this configuration it's a huge step up from the sub-$500 budget systems (but then again, it does cost twice as much), and it comes with just enough to satisfy the multimedia enthusiast who's more interested in consuming media like video, music, and photos than creating it.