Brief reviews of products including a 4GB SDHC card, a cheap DirectX 10 card and a wireless gaming mouse.

Offering bags of gaming power for an attractive price, the GeForce 8600 series is an enticing prospect.

We’ve collected some of the cheapest, oddest and most feature-packed hubs to connect all your USB peripherals connected.

Cheaper, rather than cheap, but there’s still no compelling reason to buy yet.

With such a vast range of portable applications, which ones should you install? And are any worth paying for?

Carry your favourite applications, Windows settings, emails, data and more with one of these 2GB USB flash drives.

The best convertible tablet we’ve seen great performance and great design at a decent price.

Packed with extras to target some of Vista’s interesting new features, but it isn’t quite the marvel we were hoping for.

Despite the improved specifications, the Q1-SSD is anything but mobile computing nirvana.

Speedy and adequately functional for light use, the UX27– though not perfect – is the best UMPC yet.

Custom design watercooling and some judicious overclocking make for a showstopping performance and price.

Capable of reproducing good photos, but it’s slow, a bit expensive to run and has a poor scanner.

Cheap to buy and run, the X5470 is great for mono printing, but less so for photos and images.

While HP’s strength in photo printing is once again proved, mono prints take too long and the scanner is poor.

Despite some welcome additions and good components, this Acer notebook is left wanting.

Not great value for money, but the XPS 700 offers plenty of power and striking looks.

The miracle of pocket portable data continues, with more storage in a smaller physical space.

This early Nforce 570 for Intel board lacks luxuries and speed compared to Intel chipsets, but boasts a good price.

Potentially Much faster than a X1900 XTX in games with large textures yet it costs the same. At over $100 less than Nvidia’s 7950 GX2, it’s a fine card.

One gigabyte of RAM is enough to get most applications running smoothly, but should you buy the cheapest or the fastest?