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A complete bargain at this price. The DSC-W35 boasts superb quality and a great range of features.

If you’re looking for a well-featured, great-value desktop replacement, the A7S fits the bill. Plenty of grunt, a 200GB drive and great features - Asus is looking better and better.

A great desktop replacement thanks to the huge screen and dual 200GB hard disks, but its price is too high.

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A reasonable option if your budget is tight, but you get what you pay for

A superb camera that takes fantastic pictures, and offers excellent portability and versatility

Beautifully designed with a clear interface, but format support is limited

It lacks Wi-Fi, but is otherwise an excellent budget video-streaming choice

A Media Center Extender, upscaling DVD player and great games console

Good value thanks to a decent 18-70mm kit lens and camera-based anti-shake

More features than similarly-priced cameras, including weatherproofing. JPEGs are a touch soft, though

A superb DSLR that’s a joy to use, but the high price and poor software damage value

The lack of a separate status LCD is annoying, but the 400D is great value and capable of great quality

Good quality and with a proper li-ion battery, but expensive and bulky compared to the Olympus.

An 18x zoom in a compact, well-built body. General handling and image quality are great too.

It might look like a DSLR, but it doesn’t handle as well and loses out to others with bigger zooms

Video support isn’t the best, but the PS3 remains a superb piece of kit

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Poor coverage means the Zyxel isn’t a bargain.