The Caviar 'BB' series disks from Western Digital are designed to be good, solid mid-level drives with decent all-round performance.

The Caviar 'BB' series disks from Western Digital are designed to be good, solid mid-level drives with decent all-round performance.

The Caviar 'BB' series disks from Western Digital are designed to be good, solid mid-level drives with decent all-round performance.

Absolutely jam packed with features, this notebook isn't your run-of-the-mill basic-function productivity laptop. At every turn we found hardware above and beyond the call of duty including a 64MB FX5200 graphics card, sexy widescreen display, 80GB hard disk drive and DVD-RAM/DVD-R/RW slot mounted drive for all your backup and home movie-making needs. A hybrid somewhere between legacy continuation and dismissal, this notebook features three rear-mounted USB 2.0 ports and parallel connectivity.

A new trick means more data crammed onto the single platter of a 1.8inch hard drive.

There’s now very little reason not to buy an iPod. These are simply superb.

It doesn’t look any different to the old iPod, but that doesn’t mean Apple hasn’t done anything to it.

Very powerful and, with few features missing, it’s good value at the price.

Fast, well built and superbly featured - our business laptop of choice.

For those with deep pockets and big hearts, this DVD recorder comes with full PVR functionality and an 80GB hard drive.

Gorgeous, expensive and exasperating in equal measure, and yet still desirable despite its myriad faults

The TViX is a fairly small box, roughly about the same size as a good DVD box-set, but inside it's got some amazing smarts. This also technically isn't a media streamer as such - it's more a media cacher thanks to the 80GB hard drive inside.

With new, supercharged battery life, the new iPods offer superb design and performance. But compatibility caveats remain.

Long-dubbed “The Greatest Show on Earth” within the games industry, E3 is on again and the hype machine has already fired up.

The price war among Netbooks and mini-notebooks is hot at the moment, especially leading up to Christmas. We source the best prices from around the net this week.

Two external hard drives in lego-esque cases. One of them is worthy of our recommended stamp.

Time to ditch the hard drive? Intel's 80GB drives make solid state a tasty option, though they'll probably put a dent in your hip pocket.

A great ultraportable, but stiff competition just keeps it from the A-List.

A good first stab at the semi-ruggedised laptop market. It isn’t up to the tough standards of others, though.

A very well-built ultraportable that’s great value, but a bit too small.