I was looking around for the HP 4200 model and all of the local stores didn't have them. They said that they were getting in new models this weekend and that they would all be media-center systems. I indicated that I didn't want a Media Center computer but that didn't make a difference. So like it or not, consumers are going to be getting media center computers. At least on the AMD side.
There is one store with a non-media center system but it's 40 minutes away and I haven't decided whether I want to bother driving that far. At the moment, I took back one of the laptops from the kids and am using that but it's on slow side (P4 2.0).