Acer has come to the party with an affordable well performing flat display that features an internal power supply, better than average 20ms pixel response time, crisp colour and good greyscale results.

One of the most interesting features of any board in this Labs is the 'AI' in the P4C800 Deluxe. The board will automatically inform you if you've plugged the wrong sort of peripheral into an audio jack, as well as informing of network cable problems.

The Linksys WAP11 access point features a single 10/100 Ethernet point for plugging directly into a network or via a hub to a PC.

This PCMCIA card was fairly average in all tests, returning some uninspiring times and a middling tenacity to stick to its signal.

Not quite up there with the USB dongles from MSI and Booya, the WUSB11 has good signal strengths but was lacking in transfer speeds.

With the exception of the badge on the lid, PC Club's Highlander is almost identical to both ModTech's and Targa's offerings.

Type: VoIP service with IP phoneWeb: www.broadbandphone.com.auPrice: $199 plus monthly charges

Part 1 of our VoIP product and services roundup includes: MyNetFone, Broadbandphone, Skype, Firefly, BBP Global and Chat-Cord.

Part 2 of our VoIP products and services roundup includes: MailVoice, LetsChat, Netgear TA612V, Netcomm V40 and Octtel gateway.

Slightly over budget and over-specified to fit within last month’s budget projector roundup, the Casio XJ-360 is a very compact and very capable projector that may just be worth those extra dollars.

Hot on the heels of last month’s sub- $2500 projector roundup is HP’s new vp6315.

Why bother buying a big screen that takes up part of your wall, when you can buy a cheap projector and take up the entire wall?

The Optoma H27 is one of the best home theatre projectors we looked at here.

Priced a little below the popular $2500 ceiling, the NEC HT410G is a very funky looking home theatre projector.

The brand new HC100 from Mitsubishi Electric is a more traditional looking home theatre projector with a centremounted lens, and curved lines.

The utilitarian looking InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 is a very capable home theatre projector, provided that you’re looking for a projector mainly for home theatre use.

The PE5120 from BenQ is a native widescreen projector, and while it’s happiest displaying DVDs and home theatre inputs it also performed well with desktop and text projection.

Hitachi’s PJ-TX10 is the monster of the group – in that it’s by far the biggest and the heaviest projector.

There’s only so many times I can herald the coming switch from analog TV broadcasts to digital, so I’ll just dig straight into this impressive digital television card.

A high quality projector to finish it all off, the Optoma EP739 scored respectably in just about every aspect of every test thrown at it.