Hitachi’s PJ-TX10 is the monster of the group – in that it’s by far the biggest and the heaviest projector.

Good colour reproduction at a bargain price.

One of the most barren models feature-wise that we looked at (and only dubiously beating the Sony VPL-ES1 and the Sanyo PLC-SW30 which took the bottom honours), the Hitachi CPS210 certainly made up for it when it came time to undergo our strenuous testing regime.

We test and rate 9 of the best portable presentation devices around.

Why bother buying a big screen that takes up part of your wall, when you can buy a cheap projector and take up the entire wall?

It's a sign of the times when Compaq's Aero 8000 runs Windows CE in a box bigger than a Sharp PC-A250 (reviewed issue 23, p86) running Windows 98. So what's the big idea? Windows CE uses no moving parts, while software in ROM means immediate start-up times, high reliability, and long battery life all highly desirable qualities in a portable.