Trivia question: If you stacked 12 PC Power & Cooling SleekLine 2400 PCs on top of one another, how high would they reach? Answer: no more than 2 feet.

Ebony-colored and shaped much like a pizza box, the SleekLine is designed specifically to save space, whether used as a single PC or in a computing cluster. It can certainly sit on top of your desk like a regular PC, but there are more creative places for it. To save space on your desktop or at your feet, you can use brackets to mount the system on the side of your desk, underneath the desktop, or into a rack.

Except for its unusually flat and deep shape, the SleekLine is a fairly ordinary system, though well equipped, offering a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 processor, a 120GB hard drive, and a DVD/CD-RW drive. PC Power & Cooling, based in Carlsbad, California, tops this package off with a 15.1-inch flat-panel display. The display takes up desk space, but the rest of the system can be tucked away someplace else.

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