Evesham call this system the 'Mini PC Plus', and that really sums it up - it's a mini PC with more than you'd expect. Of course, one might point at the fact it shares the 'Mini' name with a certain product from Apple, but hey - who hasn't seen the Mac Mini and thought, "That'd be ace - with Windows!"

Evesham, in conjunction with the chaps at AOpen, have come up with this system for exactly those kind of people. It's designed to be a quiet, tiny Media Center solution for your home. It presses lots of aesthetic buttons and also packs a Pentium M under the hood to provide some decent horsepower.

The full specifications for the machine we were sent for review are thus:

* Pentium M processor 2.0GHz
* 512MB DDR2 RAM
* 80GB 5400RPM Hard drive
* Intel Extreme Graphics
* External PSU
* Azalia High Definition audio
* DVD writer
* 10/100 Ethernet
* Windows Media Center Edition 05
* BullGuard Anti-Virus

All of this will set you back £773.94 including VAT.

However, we'd recommend a couple of tweaks to the configuration to get the optimal price/performance. Number one, drop the BullGuard software - it is quite possibly the worst AV software we've ever seen. Many of you will know that there are some well-supported freeware Anti-Virus solutions available, which means that paying for the inclusion of BullGuard is unneeded. Our favourite freeware AV scanner is AVG Free Edition.

Number two, drop the Pentium M from 2.0GHz to 1.8GHz - the small drop in clock speed makes no difference to Media Center operation. However, with the cash saved, you can upgrade to a 100GB drive and add integrated wireless functionality with a 802.11G internal card. These tweaks will take the cost of the system up to £783.87, but we think this is a good price for a more rounded configuration for its intended use.