Slated for pricing as low as $199, Dell's cube-shaped Zino is targeted at households wanting a handy and moveable multimedia center low on energy consumption..

Those looking for a compact, inexpensive all-in-one PC for Web surfing and light productivity, with a design that will blend in well in most rooms, won’t be disappointed in the HP Pavilion MS214. Its performance is noticeably better than the often sluggish budget all-in-ones that sell for less. But those looking for a solidly performing PC for CPU-stressing tasks like watching HD and Hulu.com video, or editing large video and image files, should opt for something more powerful, like a traditional budget tower desktop at about the same price, or an all-in-one at about $100 more.

You can get it here from HP for $599.99

The new Wind Top AE2010 will be available with either AMD Athlon 2650e 1.6GHz CPU or a much powerful dual-core Athlon X2 3250e 1.5GHz CPU. Both will be paired with AMD's RS780G/SB710 chipset that comes with integrated ATI Radeon 3200 graphics with 128MB of DDR3 graphics memory. The 20-inch 16:9 touchscreen features native resolution of 1600x900 pixels.

Essentially the Pavilion Elite e9120y is a classic jack of all trades, master of none. It can play Blu-ray movies, but we wouldn't use it as a digital theater PC in the living room because of its size. It has decent application performance, as you'll see below, but it's not as fast as other PCs that cost less. And although its discrete 3D card likely helps Blu-ray playback, it barely registers on our most forgiving 3D gaming test. You can configure similar desktops from HP on its Web site and build a more targeted, specialized computer. Unless you're looking for this particular blend of only so-so features and performance, we'd suggest that the online configuration route would net you a better system.

The Inspiron 546 is the desktop model that Dell promotes the most online, according to AMD. "It is AMD showing up back in force in the meat of the (Dell) desktop line," Grimm said. "It was an all-Intel SKU (stock-keeping unit) for a while, and now it is an all-AMD SKU."