A Bit Humbling, Actually...

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Having a working wife in a job she loves with reasonably good compensation has helped to take me from delivering pizzas to make ends meet a bit less than a year ago to having gotten a new computer yesterday...

Model: HP m7167c-b
Intel® Pentium® D Processor 820 with 2 Processing Cores
2.8GHz
1GB PC2-3200 DDR2 SDRAM
300GB 7200RPM Serial ATA hard drive
DVD-ROM drive 16x max. speed
19" LCD flat panel monitor w/integrated speakers
TV Tuner (NTSC) with Personal video recorder and FM tuner (antenna included)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005

Processor and Memory: Intel® Pentium® D Processor 820 with 2 processing cores Processor Speed 2.8GHz L2 Cache: x 1MB 800MHZ Front-Side Bus
1GB PC2-3200 DDR2 SDRAM memory (2x512MB for ultimate performance --expandable to 4GB)
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with up to 224MB shared video memory

Hard Drive: 300GB 7200RPM Serial ATA hard drive
DVD-ROM drive 16x max. speed
LightScribe Double Layer 16X DVD±R/RW drive with CD writer capabilities: 16x DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD±RW, 2.4x DVD+R DL, 16x DVD-ROM, 40x CDR, 24x CDRW, 40x CD-ROM

Audio, Video, and Graphics: Intel® High Definition Audio with up to 7.1 surround sound capabilities
TV Tuner (NTSC) with personal video recorder and FM tuner (antenna included)
HP Media Center remote control with IR (infrared) receiver

Data, Fax, and Modem: Integrated 10/100Base-T network interface
56K fax modem

Ports: Front panel 9-in-1 memory card reader – supports Smart Media, xD, MultiMedia Card, Secure Digital (SD), Compact Flash I, Compact Flash II, Micro Drive, Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro
HP Personal Media Drive Bay (available)
6 USB 2.0 ports (2 front, 4 back)
2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports (1 front, 1 back)
1 parallel, 2 PS/2 ports (back)
Microphone/headphone/line-in (front)
Composite Video, S-Video, and Audio Inputs (front)
Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor:
HP wireless optical mouse and wireless keyboard with extended range (up to 16')
HP vs19 19" LCD flat panel monitor with integrated speakers
Remote Control
IR receiver
TV tuner w/video recorder, FM tuner w/antenna

Now...what are the killer apps for such a machine? And what are the must-have games this year? I've been running on a dogass five year old PIII for so long that I haven't paid much attention to new stuff because I couldn't run most of it.