<p style="text-align: justify;">Call it the Millennial Effect &ndash; the impact that comes with having a generation of people who expect powerful technology in small devices, recognize the value of online tools, are attracted to cutting-edge designs and understand that the digital line between work and personal lives can be blurry.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To understand it, look no further than HP&rsquo;s release of two new desktop computers, the HP Pavilion Wave and the HP Elite Slice. The small, sleek desktop computers, which look more like coffee table d&eacute;cor than desktop computers - are a far cry from the PC towers that once sat under cubicle desks. They take up a fraction of the space that the old towers once needed and perform exponentially faster, too.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Certainly, with such a small footprint, the outer appearances of both the Pavilion Wave and Elite Slice are what&rsquo;s most immediately striking &ndash; but that&rsquo;s only the beginning.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>HP Pavilion Wave</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The small, triangular shaped HP Pavilion Wave &ndash; about 15 percent the size of a traditional tower - has a distinctive design that was formed by arranging the internal components into a layout that would be optimal for the most demanding computing tasks. On one side is the motherboard, including the processor, discrete graphics card and SSD, while a second side holds the hard drive. The third side contains the thermals - heat pipes that extract heat from the motherboard and graphics card, push it through copper pipes, across cooling fins and out the machine&rsquo;s top.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The top of the device also has a &ldquo;parabolic reflector&rdquo; that serves two purposes. &nbsp;When the audio fires upwards, it bounces off the reflector in all directions. The reflector also serves as an outlet vent for hot air. An internal blower pulls air from intake vents in the bottom of the unit and sends it out the top.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As a PC, the Pavilion Wave also comes with a sound system that includes a neatly tucked-away array microphone so that both online chat and music playback are optimized, a combination of millennial favorites.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">What&rsquo;s distinctive about the sound is the 360&deg; Multi-directional Reflective Audio approach. Once audio emanates from a source, it naturally reflects.&nbsp; The speaker sits in the center of the unit, with the components around it. The parabolic reflector&rsquo;s shape was engineered to direct the audio in a parallel way, at the same angle, at 360 degrees. This enables a consistent audio experience from any direction, whether the device is sitting in a corner or in the middle of the room. It also includes an audio driver that creates more than 3x more wattage than other laptop computers, which provides a louder sound.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Specifications, pricing and availability of the&nbsp;HP Pavilion Wave&nbsp;can be found on hp.com.</p>