Beautifully engineered and constructed, the Mac Pro is also the fastest PC we’ve ever seen by some margin.

There is something totally decadent about playing your favourite PC game on a 30-inch LCD monitor with stereo sound from two banks of speakers - one on each side.

Nvidia’s 8800 GTX graphics card is the crowning glory of this very-fast, great-value, PC.

Nominating Sato as our winner for the desktop machines this month was fairly straightforward, especially when compared to deciding the outcome of the closely-fought notebook war. Because, even though the Sato was outdone by one or two systems in terms of performance, nothing beat it on pure value for money.

A worthy update to the most underrated of the Office applications — OneNote is now a must-have.

The TViX is a fairly small box, roughly about the same size as a good DVD box-set, but inside it's got some amazing smarts. This also technically isn't a media streamer as such - it's more a media cacher thanks to the 80GB hard drive inside.

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 older Nikon wireless camera, that in its day was a superb 8-megapixel camera in its own right. Small, smart and destined for greatness

An absolute steal at this price – great performance and superb value make this a must for next-gen WiFi junkies

We never thought we’d see it happen, but now you can run Windows XP natively on a Mac.

The notebook winner this month was a close call. Two units stood out as being at the top of the multimedia field: the Pioneer D47K and the Acer Aspire 1802WSM. Feature-by-feature they were very closely matched, but we chose the Pioneer for several reasons, one of which was its advanced media capabilities.

The PC peripheral finally hits the mainstream with this easy-to-use touchscreen device offering loads of extras

Taking over on the innovation and user friendliness from where the original iPod left off, the iPod Mini features similar design to the original, but is in every regard smaller.

More approachable than ever, with excellent malware detection in an affordable package

One of the best performers in this category – if you’re a PC user on a decent budget, you must hear this sporty Walkman

New songs and a battle mode make Guitar hero III a winner

Considering the features on offer, the P180 is a superb bargain at this price.

If you’re buying a USB key, buy this.

Comprehensive, competent and configurable protection at a good price. This is the best security suite out there

Another minor revision, but the addition of privacy functions further extends its impressively wide focus