HP’s Opteron MP server delivers an innovative design teamed with high expansion potential and a good price.

A fine combination of remote management, all-round fault tolerance and top build quality

A huge capacity, classy specification, plenty of business-related storage features and lightning performance

A solid, general-purpose pedestal server with good storage and a classy management act – plus it’s quiet as a mouse

A versatile single-socket rack server with a wide range of processor choices, plus a good warranty for the price.

A versatile single-socket rack server with a wide range of processor choices, plus a good warranty for the price.

Comparatively pricey, but IBM delivers a quality rack-server package.

The first of the new breed of IBM rack servers, delivering superb design and a wealth of new features.

A low-cost SSL-VPN appliance that may fit your bill, but sacrifices are inevitably made to hit the sub-$250 price

Certainly not a speed merchant, but it delivers plenty of backup facilities, good security and unique design concepts.

Surely, this can't be right – a full-colour laser printer for only $1,800? You'd better believe it, The catch is that the 2300W is a GDI (graphical device interface) printer, so it doesn't have an internal processor and relies on the host system to do all the legwork in preparing the pages. Furthermore, it's parallel and USB 1.1 only and it can't accept a network card. That aside, the printer offers a fine set of features for the price. There's a 600 x 600dpi resolution with a 1,200 x 600dpi Fine ART mode, along with 4ppm colour and 16ppm mono print speeds.

A good quality and speedy colour laser printer, but the running costs are unsettlingly high.

An easily managed appliance for small offices. Performance is modest, but it offers useful remote access features

A solidly built thin client with a good hardware specification and features, including a classy remote management act

A workgroup laser with a good turn of speed and low running costs, but we expect better quality at this price.

An A3 colour printer with a good turn of speed, quality colour output and low running costs.

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.

A low-cost, managed Gigabit switch with full PoE support on all fixed ports, but the external power supply is huge.

D-Link offers a well-built desktop NAS appliance that looks good value, but for business users it’s short of features