It’s incredibly powerful, but recent releases offer similar performance for significantly less money.

It was all looking good until Nvidia’s new cards overtook it on the final straight.

A popular and fast top-end option, but it’s losing its grip to new competition from both sides.

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

A fast, quiet, good-looking PC that's great value.

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

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

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

Great quality, great features, great price.

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

Custom design watercooling and some judicious overclocking make for a showstopping performance and price.

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

A great reason to buy into iPod. It’s good value, though its required accessories can add up.

An exciting glimpse at future performance, but by the time games appear to make them worth buying, the price will have plummeted.

With new, supercharged battery life, the new iPods offer superb design and performance. But compatibility caveats remain.

Very fast, but the top-end components offer poor value in the face of competition.

A powerful and feature-packed notebook. But it can’t match the quality of Dell’s XPS M1710.

Potentially Much faster than a X1900 XTX in games with large textures yet it costs the same. At over $100 less than Nvidia’s 7950 GX2, it’s a fine card.

We’ve had some great competitors knocking on the mid-range A-Listed door, but TI’s all-rounder wins through.

Some will prefer it to TI’s system, but a few quirks see it finishing in second place.