I just bought a home media PC. In a box the size of your hand, it packs as much computing power as a decent laptop (intel duar-core i3 processor, HD Graphics, and 8-channel audio), with 16GB of RAM and a 16GB SSD. It’s going to be connected to the TV, and via either an IR remote control or a wireless keyboard, we can bittorrent to our heart’s content and watch it as it streams :)
It’s going to be a replacement to the current play!on box, which is getting long in the tooth (and more importantly, the remote has been dropped so many times that it’s starting to disintegrate).