Its styling continues the glossy piano black tradition set by so many living room systems before it. A funky wedge with two holes sticks out the side of the P20 and differentiates it from the rest of the competition but otherwise serves no practical purpose. The P20 is a minimalist machine that is not cluttered with buttons and dials. The front panel of the machine consists of the slot-load DVD burner, speakers and touch sensitive power button. A vertical stand is included if you do happen to be short of space or if you prefer the vertical look. At 1.77kg, the P20 is light enough for you to carry around with you as a portable desktop machine, however it would be most suited staying in living room environments.

When powering it up, we had issues with the touch sensitive power button. You'd think that the most essential function of any system would work reliably all the time, but this was not the case with the P20. It took several touches of the power button to get the P20 to recognise that we did want it to be powered on. Once we did get it on, the slot load DVD burner roared to life and sounded as if it was about to shatter the DVD that was contained inside. But once Vista Home Premium was loaded, operation was silent.

Using the onboard Intel X3000-based graphics, we were able to view high definition content, however we did experience minimal stuttering on 1080P content due to its budget Core 2 Duo E2160 running at 1.8GHz and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. The lackluster graphics performance is also shown in the P20's Windows Vista Experience Index which gave the system a rating of 3.1, with the score being held back because of the X3000 integrated graphics. Running PCMark05 resulted in a score of 3,942 PC Marks, which is in the ballpark of similarly specc'ed Core 2 Duo systems, although more powerful mainstream systems average around 6,000 PC Marks.