Great design and comprehensive features make it a truly great Media Center PC. Only the price lets it down.

There’s now very little reason not to buy an iPod. These are simply superb.

Decent quality at a great price make this a bargain, but you'll need extras to appreciate it.

Dual-core and Windows Vista make it into our A-List’s Value PC category.

A very fast, well-built high-end PC. But a few niggles and high price keep it off the A-List.

A great combination of power, features and downright value.

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

A retrograde step from its predecessor, but a super low price makes this dinky PC very desirable

Not the best road handling, but the offroad features could make it very attractive.

A very-well designed alternative to big beefy computers which make a lot of noise.

Good value, but it needs to decide whether it’s a business or consumer notebook.

An adequate Media Centre PC, but Asus’ competitor blows it out of the water.

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

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

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

Quad-core makes it powerful and good value at the price. Noise and stability suffer though.

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

Fast and good value. Gamers and power users will like it.