VeryPC Treeton II XS review

Another nice touch is that VeryPC can pre-install the OpenOffice suite free of charge, making it ready to go straight out of the box.

Cost, though, is also the Treeton's Achilles heel. Although the PC is a small, efficient and reasonably fast all-round machine, it excels at no one particular task, and yet costs over £600 before even a monitor or peripherals are taken into account.

Despite its Blu-ray drive, without a large hard disk and HDMI port it's hard to recommend this as a media centre, and without a cheap price tag it's hard to recommend it as an office machine. It unfortunately misses the target audience purely looking for the most energy efficient PC, too, as a standard laptop can match its performance for around 21 watts idle - and that includes a screen. It is, then, hard to see what niche this second Treeton will occupy.

Author: Matthew Sparkes