We expect a PR company to big-up its client's latest product when sending out a press release, but the recent email circulated on behalf of Sony for its VGX-XL100 Media Center takes things to a new level.

For starters, the 250GB hard drive is described as “massive”. For a Media Center PC, we’d say 250GB is the bare minimum. 500MB would be massive.

It goes on to describe the PC as “a gamer’s dream machine”. Is Sony really trying to persuade us that a 2.8GHz Pentium processor and 128MB Nvidia Geforce 6600 graphics card is a gamer's dream? A 3.46 Intel Extreme processor and two Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX 512MB cards - now that’s something for gamers to salivate over.

Besides, Media Center, combined with Intel’s new Viiv standard, is all about watching and streaming TV, movies and music, not high-performance gaming.

Going by Sony’s past Vaios, the VGX-XL100 is probably going to be a neat Media Center that performs well (that is as well as a Media Center needs to perform) - there’s simply no need to try and hype it up in this misleading way.

We're first on the list to get a review unit, so keep an eye on www.pcw.co.uk for a full review. You can read a full news story on Sony's VGX-XL100 here.