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Quick, cheap to run and an abundance of features – a worthy award winner

Fast colour output, great network tools and reasonable print quality

It isn’t cheap, but plenty of features and top quality propel this printer to the top of the pile

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From personal printers to home office colour, we put 12 lasers through their paces. Some are lightning fast; others produce dazzling colour. Some are tiny, and some are surprisingly cost-effective.

External hard disks are a great way to add storage. We test 13, from sub-$130 portable drives to mighty terabyte desktop units.

Fifteen security packages go head to head in our labs test, including Kaspersky, Norton, ZoneAlarm, McAfee, F-Secure and AVG. Find out which will keep you safe and which could let you down.

We test nine devices, from the simplest printers to versatile multifunction devices that print, scan, copy and fax