The second-cheapest model submitted for the roundup, the $249 price tag is very attractive

According to a recent ACCC study, people are jumping on the broad-bandwagon in droves. In fact, the amount of people upgrading to broadband has doubled in the last 12 months. And as you might expect, the hardware community has responded by ramping up both Internet sharing and security devices for homes and businesses.

If you're buying a new 360, get an Elite - simple as that. If you've already got one, this is pretty much a cosmetic upgrade – but you might want to look into getting the separate 120GB hard drive when it comes out...

The best Canon home all-in-one yet, with flawless quality and an impressive feature list.

Superb print quality at consistently high speeds, and it’s packed with useful features too.

Quality, speed and a huge array of features go some way to justifying the price

Plenty of features, but printing and scanning results proved average at best

Good, but not good enough: it can’t compete with the winners this month

Decent wireless printing, but the poor scanning, copying and speed let the Dell down

The scanner is the only minor weakness in an otherwise near perfect home all-in-one

Fast, great quality prints at a decent price – the only real competition for the other Canon

Interesting design and plenty of features, but it takes an age to produce mediocre results

A dreadful scanner and an overall lack of features make the low price a moot point

The all-in-one design has certainly reduced the overall size of the modern PC, but just how far you can go is the question on the lips of all the boffins in the R&D labs. Jadetec has already released

Another contender for an award this month, this model narrowly missed out, with a marginally below average value rating

The absolute epitome of 'feature-packed', the number of inclusions on this unit floored us. Its whopping 162 point feature score is over one-and-a-half times the average point score and comes on the back of its big feature line up.

Neither cheap nor beautiful, MSI’s Atom powered nettop is sadly second among equals.

If you find a scanner bundled with this software, it'll be hard to resist.

The HP Officejet Pro 8500 is one of the best office inkjet alternatives for under $350. Being feature packed, small businesses may be tempted to try this over the latest expensive laser printer.