Running costs are high, but with a high resolution and superb performance, it’s a groundbreaking product.

A good quality and speedy colour laser printer, but the running costs are unsettlingly high.

A very fast, well-built high-end PC. But a few niggles and high price keep it off the A-List.

Incredibly powerful laptop system at high spec, but you can also opt for a cheaper, lower spec version

3Dlabs has a strong reputation amongst the professional graphics community for producing high performance and high quality chipsets and graphics cards. The Oxygen range spans the low to high-end of the professional OpenGL market, with the GVX1 falling in the middle of this range.

Sony's first CMOS based consumer HD camera brings control and fidelity to images in a package that's hard to beat.

TI's current workstation-class 3D graphics accelerators - dubbed X1 - are the company's latest effort to keep a hand in the high-end 3D graphics market. Consumer-level 3D hardware is now massively powerful, of course, but for all-out 3D performance and rock-solid driver integration you need a card dedicated to the purpose, and ATI claims the X1-128 is it.

Gigabyte's new Canterwood-based GA-8KNXP is, without a doubt, one of the most full-featured motherboards we've ever seen. It incorporates all of the basics offered by the MSI 865PE Neo2 (see below) plus more. The differences between the older 845 and new 865 (Springdale) and 875 (Canterwood) chipsets are primarily feature-based – the 875P is designed to be the ultra-high-end option for extreme power users. As such, it's more expensive but has more niche capabilities.

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It’s not cheap, but it’s powerful and cleverly constructed to make the most of the components.

Raw power and gaming prowess plus our a-listed monitor: this is a fantastic system, but the price is a deterrent.

A fast, quiet, good-looking PC that's great value.

Very fast, but the top-end components offer poor value in the face of competition.

Hi-Grade's new high-end notebook offers unparalleled performance. Packing a 2.2GHz Pentium 4 and 512MB DDR, it's one tough cookie, and contains a whole herd of ponies under the hood.

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

The X800XT is at the cutting edge of gaming technology at the moment, and no card demonstrates this better than the PowerColor X800XT. It combines a killer price (for a high-end card), excellent performance, and a respectable bundle.

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

Both graphics card giants have unleashed powerful new additions to their ranks recently, and their battle for supremacy is hotter than ever. We put the new arrivals through their paces

Flat CRT technology is all the buzz these days, and there are three main competing technologies. While LG, with its Flatron range, offers a completely flat screen, it has run into a couple of problems.

Great performance, fantastic value and near silent operation makes this our new A-List mid-range PC winner.