Moving in the right direction, but it isn’t easy teaching an old dog new tricks.

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

Custom design watercooling and some judicious overclocking make for a showstopping performance and price.

Red Hat's latest offering is a finely tuned offensive into the lucrative corporate desktop market. With the Linux steamroller on a collision course for Redmond the last year has seen a number of major wins for the open source upstart with corporations such as IBM and governments that include Germany, France, China, Japan, Russia and Britain either already making the switch or considering it. And not just for servers, but on workstations too.

While the build quality of the ASUS A4000L is good and sturdy, this notebook is much larger than the others featured in our roundup.

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

Slightly less sturdy than previous Dell models we have seen, the D500 is finished in attractive silver bezel housing, the keyboard is comfortable to use and offers all the functionality of standard-sized desktop keyboards.

Fast, well built and superbly featured - our business laptop of choice.

For many years, After Effects (AE) was the only real choice for PC video compositing - everything else was in a different price/hardware league. But in the last couple of years, with the steady improvement of Pinnacle's Commotion and the huge price drop in Discreet's Combustion, AE isn't alone anymore.

FIC's Condor has answered the call this month, offering gamers an easy to upgrade system, wrapped up in a one of the most innovative cases we've seen.

Lightning quick, top-quality prints and the running costs are as low as the price tag

For those users after goliath capacity drives with fast seek and access times, there's the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus.

an Australian product that effectively cleans out the gunk, by following the page path through the printer.

A compact IP telephony router with great features, but the web interface isn’t user-friendly.

A compact IP telephony router with great features, but the web interface isn’t user-friendly.

Both of these systems offer immense flexibility and decent value for money, although the Intel version wins out.

The $1000 PC was once regarded as the Holy Grail of computing, but now almost every manufacturer has one.

Not much to tempt you over last year's HV20 but Canon still rules the roost when it comes to raw picture quality

This brand-new projector is expensive and rather noisy, but image quality is excellent.

Epson has two current specialist photo printers and the model which takes care of the lower end is the $399 Stylus Photo 810.