Since my bday is on the 23rd

I got a present and is was a brand new computer!

its a vaio RA810G with 19″ XBRITE LCD Display

• Processor
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 550 3.40E GHz1 with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology

• Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® Media Center Edition 2004
VAIO® recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP

• Cache Memory
1MB Integrated On-Die Level 2

• Standard RAM
1GB PC-3200 400MHz DDR (expandable to 2.0GB)

• DVD+R Double Layer / DVD±RW Drive (supports writing video in double layer format)
Double Layer5
+R
(2.4 max. +R write)
DVD±RW5
-RW
(8X max. -R write / 4X max. -RW rewrite / 8X max. -R/-RW read)
+RW
(8X max. +R write / 4X max. +RW rewrite /8X max. +R/+RW read)
CD-RW (40X max. -R write / 24X max. rewrite / 40X max. -R read / 32X max. -RW read)

• Display
Includes 19″ flat panel LCD display (SDM-HS94P/B)

• Video & Graphics
ATI Radeon™ X600 XT 128MB Video Memory (128-bit DDR)
TV-Out / VGA-Out / DVI-Out (DVI output: 1280x1024x60Hz max.) 16x PCI Express Giga Pocket™ MPEG2 Realtime Encoder/Decoder board with TV Tuner

• Expansion Slots
One 16x PCI Express (occupied by Graphics Card)
Two PCI (one available)
One PCI Express1 (occupied)
Multi-Media Card Reader (Memory
Stick™, Compact Flash™ Type I and Type II, IBM Micro Drive™)

• Supplied Accessories
Speakers (Stereo) w/Subwoofer IR Remote Control and Receiver / IR Blaster

and best of all

it has a tv connection w/ remote
Pause, rewind and replay live TV
Record up to four hours of DVD video