Not so long ago, Pinnacle concentrated on manufacturing graphics hardware and bundling third-party software with it. These days the company provides its own digital video editing software and makes no bones about competing with Adobe's Premiere.

With Web Standard/Premium, Design Premium AND Macromedia’s products now absorbed into CS3, choosing the right suite is EASY.

Powerful new versions of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, and now Acrobat 8 Professional too.

With a fantastic new suite of plug-ins on top of an already hugely powerful production environment, it’s hard to imagine a musician for whom Sonar 5 isn’t perfect.

The X800XT PE is ATI's flagship technology, and its main change over the standard X800 XT is a core frequency increase from 500MHz to 520MHz, and a memory increase from 500MHz to 560MHz. Consequently, it performs better than the standard X800 XT's, topping all the benchmarks and achieving a phenomenal 26588 marks in 3DMark01 in 1024 x 768.

While AMD has been waving hybrid 32/64-bit CPUs for some time now, speculation has risen over when Intel would unleash their product onto an already expecting market. Here it is, Intel's newest addition to their Extreme Edition clocking in at an impressive 3.73GHz and boasting a 2MB L3 cache.

Purely because of its size, even the smallest PDA isn’t something you’re likely to feel comfortable holding to your ear as a phone for long periods of time. And, despite its slim curves and great physique, the Xda II is no exception.

Optical character recognition (OCR) software has been around for a long time and OmniPage from ScanSoft is often touted as the market leader in this space.

After the launch of the latest Acrobat a few months ago, everything went quiet on the Adobe front. It's now clear what the company was working on, with the simultaneous launch of each of its main creative design packages -- Photoshop/ImageReady, Illustrator, InDesign and GoLive. (Please see individual reviews of all of these packages on this month's cover CD.)

Expensive, but the features are packed in. Just note the lack of Wi-Fi and some strong iPaq competition.

If you've been fantasising about a slate PC that would look at home in Arthur Dent's satchel, read on.

Not only slightly cheaper than the last version, but now Encore CS3 and OnLocation CS3 are included too.

Fantastic hardware. The GPS software is mediocre, but you can buy your own.

Easier to use than the q1 and cheaper, but battery life is a concern

A promising debut for UMPCs, but the controls are tricky to master

A fantastic Media Center PC at an extraordinary price.

If were to believe the hyperbole, this technology will do for digital technology what the invention of the parachute did for skydiving.

Attractively small and aggressively priced, the Ultra Slim is an interesting proposition for businesses

Dual-core and Windows Vista make it into our A-List’s Value PC category.

Designed to sit between the low-end Inspiron and high-end XPS families, it comes in 15in and 17in flavours and its target audience could be pretty much anyone: few laptops are as customisable as this.