An impressive touchscreen all-in-one PC for an equally impressive price, but the single-core Atom holds it back

A very likeable all-in-one – albeit limited in its usefulness beyond basic functions. Read our review of Shuttle's new all-in-one X50

It’s one of the facts of the gaming hobbyist’s life: cutting edge games require cutting edge hardware. It’s as set in stone as Moore’s Law (which is itself now 40 years old). Every 12 to 18 months you need to upgrade or get left behind. Our contenders this month make a very good case for starting with a clean slate, and none more so than this month’s winner, the Modtech Civic-64FX.

Very narrowly pipped for the top placing Labs winner award this month, Plus offers an impressive performing gaming machine with all the bells and whistles you'd expect to find at this price point. Wrapped in the attractive Cooler Master Cavalier wave housing, there's no ultra portability to be found here. The clear advantage of moving away from small form factor housing is not being starved for space internally.

A beautiful example of high technology, but we have reservations about the ultimate quality of images.

Outstanding. Fantastic. Excellent. The FlexScan came top or equal top in all areas of our quality testing.

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

Surround-sound support and mastering-quality plug-ins mean Sound Forge is better than ever.

Surround-sound support and mastering-quality plug-ins mean Sound Forge is better than ever.

A promising debut for UMPCs, but the controls are tricky to master

Supreme quality and performance at a supreme price.

In a world filled with gorgeous Sony, Apple and even Dell laptops, a sober, matte black machine aimed at consumers has to be truly special to turn heads. The IdeaPad Y430 is a well-built Centrino 2 machine that lacks nothing in the way of features, speed or value

Can Intel steal Phenom's performance thunder with this top-end quad core chip?

With a fantastic new suite of plug-ins on top of an already hugely powerful production environment, it’s hard to imagine a musician for whom Sonar 5 isn’t perfect.

Sony has done a good job of packaging a top quality camera into such a compact size. While it's not the smallest of the Sony range, it'll appeal to those who don't want anything too bulky.

A beautifully designed, powerful system that almost no-one will be able to justify buying. If your IT department can find the budget to put a new Mac Pro on your desktop, you're lucky indeed

A slight speed boost and a new curvaceous shape keep Canon on top of the inkjet pile.

A superb piece of case engineering that costs a lot, but suits top end PCs to a tee.

The pics are the best we've ever seen from a camera phone. Nokia's N82 springs to the top of our "phones that will replace your camera" list.

A wiser purchase than the XTX, this is the best of the top-end cards.