Philips has a killer Media Center PC that is inspired by the Little Lluon from Korea. The new LX1000 Media Center PC comes with more than decent specifications in order to cater for all your home entertainment needs. An AMD Turion 64 1.8GHz processor runs the show with some help from a 120GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, an integrated analog/digital TV tuner, WiFi connectivity, and a dual-layer DVD writer. Graphical muscle is provided by NVIDIA’s GeForce 6600 GPU. The LX1000 will make a sleek addition to any home, looking sharp no matter where you place it. It’s extremely compact size, measuring just 195mm x 58mm x 212mm, dispels the notion that Media Center PCs are bulky and huge. Pick up the LX1000 today for £999.The Philips LX1000 also includes a hybrid TV tuner – for both analogue and Freeview – so you can watch television through it too. It also comes with other bits of software, such as the Cyberlink suite for playing and making DVDs (something Windows Media Center can’t do on its own).

The processor is an AMD Turion 64 ML-34 which runs at 1.8GHz. It has 1GB of memory, although 64MB of this is used by the graphics card, which is an Nvidia Geforce Go 6600. Both of these, eagle-eyed readers will have spotted, are designed for use in notebooks. That they’re featured here is a testament to how packed-in the LX1000 is.

Because it’s so small, a normal processor and graphics card would generate so much heat in the small case that it would probably melt. Hence the mobile technology, which uses less power and generates less heat. However, they are also less powerful in computing terms, so don’t expect the performance of a similarly priced desktop PC.