A good-looking, ergonomically excellent laptop with a wealth of multimedia capabilities for home users.

A Media Center PC and 32in LCD TV all-in-one.

A poor performer in the face of HP’s similarly-priced, touch screen-enabled rival.

A stunning way to enjoy HD DVD, but the wonderful design and features come at a price

Any way you look at it, ITC’s Millennia 7350 is a monster.

It turns out that Microsoft [I]is[/I] bringing out Windows XP Media Center Edition in Australia, but until such time as it materialises -- and Microsoft Australia is being very sketchy on the dates -- those of us looking to integrate our PC media files with our televisions and hi-fi systems have to turn to bridging solutions.

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

In order to control distribution of movies and prevent piracy, many most DVDs are region protected to ensure that they cannot be played outside of their region of issue. In short, this means you can't play American DVDs on an Australian player and vice versa. To further complicate the matter, PC and notebook DVD drives are locked to the least region set with DVD drives correspondingly locked after five changes of region code by the user.

The format wars continue as Blu Ray comes to a monster laptop at a monster price.

HP’s Dragon combines fantastic power, comprehensive features and an innovative 20in screen design.

Awesome power and features at a Reasonable price – but keep it plugged in.

A monster PC thanks to some very high-end components. But it’s noisy and expensive.

If you want a monstrously powerful laptop, look no further.

Fantastic design and highly-configurable power make this XPS useful, desirable and good value.

A decent multimedia notebook, but it’s not exciting enough for the price.

Another big name brand PC gets a cutting-edge, all-format, high-def optical drive capable of playing Blu-ray and HD DVD.

Not very competitive on price, but there’s plenty of scope for performance

Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.