Packard Bell IMAX 3516

Small, compact, classic simple styling. Powerful for it's size. Plenty of connectivity.

BluRay drive is pants. Software required to make the thing play BluRay films is VERY expensive and twitchy. No HDMI output. Not enough memory to play decent games. You'll also need to but a graphics card (recommend 512K+). There are doubtless better...

Small and compact

Hard drive could do with being larger, due to the constant updates from MS.