Sony’s new Active series of headphones are designed to stay on your noggin, but that all depends on how well you wear them. We put our eardrums on the line, so you didn’t have to....

Navman or TomTom? We tested the best selling units in a head to head battle to see which would get us home faster and with less hassle.

It might seem unfair comparing MYOB’s best selling single user product with Quicken’s multi-user small business accounting package, but the key difference between the two is number of licences and not the functionality.

In the sub-$2,000 category, we thought it would be negligent to leave Apple, and its popular eMac, out of the running. While we can't benchmark it head to head with the PCs, at least we can compare the features and see what alternatives there are to mainstream PCs in the world. Interestingly, the eMac (as its prefix implies) was originally intended for the education market, but it proved to be such a success it was cut loose into the broader retail market.

Sony never lets you forget that it creates Personal Entertainment Organisers; Personal Data Assistants simply aren't trendy enough. But if you ignore the marketing, it rapidly becomes clear that the TJ35 is going head-to-head with the supposedly business-oriented Palm Tungsten E (January 2004, cover CD).

Over 60 new tracks plus more to download means our love affair with Guitar Hero continues. It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but we like it – a lot

Currently only available to OEMs, although it should be released later to the consumer market, Seagate’s Momentus hard drive upgrade kit is designed to boost the common bottleneck issue of hard drive performance in notebooks, tablet PCs, digital audio players and blade servers.

We've put both mini-notebooks through their paces, and while Linux fans may disagree, the winner is clear.

Blu-ray takes another tentative step towards the mass market, but is now the time to buy?

You would be excused from having the word 'hot' pop into your head when you first set eyes on the Gainward FX 5900.

Powerful, well price and a worthy addition to the A-List. The PacStar Core i7 is a PC we wouldn't be unhappy to take home and spend the weekend gaming on

An interesting new technology, but cheap running costs are let down by poor quality.

We’ve all been warned a million times since the dawn of computing – but we’ll knock it into your head once more for posterity: save often.

Noise-cancelling earphones that won't break the bank, but the ANC7’s tend to warm your ears so much, you’re going wish for in-fan cooling.

Blisteringly fast but expensive for the capacity

We received two different versions of this card during our testing, with the only difference being the housing and cooler system used.

Back in September Hercules impressed us all by blowing away the competition in our 3D graphics card Labs..

Some interesting technology, married with superb performance – and a huge price tag.

Seagate delivers a carnivorous drive, and does something to curb our fears of data loss.

The big feature that sets the 6200TC apart from the 6600's and 6800's is the addition of TurboCache. Currently, graphics cards are typically limited to the memory on the graphics card, but TurboCache opens the door to your PC's system memory.