Sony's monolithic Media Center PC

We hesitate to say that Sony is back, as they're doing such a good job of shooting themselves in the foot by crippling their products with all sorts of annoying copy protections and useless proprietary formats, but you've gotta admit that at least everything they've announced this week looks hot, from the
PlayStation Portable, to that
1 terabyte digital video recorder and that
multimedia tablet PC. The latest this week is their new monolith-from-2001-like Vaio R line of Media Center Desktops, which look as if they were designed to intimidate everything else in the house. The first in the series, the VGC-RA810G, will have up to 1.6 terabytes of storage, a 3.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a gap in the middle for air cooling the processor (supposed to make things quieter), and a double-layer, dual-format DVD burner.

[Via eHomeUpgrade]