Quick, cheap and light: the best 3.5in drive in the group.

A Power supply built with a little too much power and too little warranty.

A clever, convenient little drive that you can carry around with you in your pocket.

750GB of storage. Backups may be problem.

Good value and high capacity, but performance is average

Huge capacity, but not very quiet or good value

Two external hard drives in lego-esque cases. One of them is worthy of our recommended stamp.

Mobile wireless broadband for your notebook, and a tale of two cities.

Rating exceptionally well in the TCO portion of our analysis, the PagePro 1200W scored almost twice the average for purchase price due to its incredibly low retail price. Don’t be fooled by the price tag though, this unit features plenty of qualities some other more expensive printers can only dream about.

IBM both developed and was the first to utilise GMR in its hard drives back in 1997.

A compact workgroup laser suited to high-volume colour and mono printing, but delivering average photo quality

Cheaper, rather than cheap, but there’s still no compelling reason to buy yet.

A miniature marvel, the E120N’s speed and size make it an obvious choice for home offices.

High capacity, good performance and affordable. The Caviar is a great alternative to the Samsung

Fast, quiet and unbeatable value, the SpinPoint P120 is the clear leader here

The GeForce3 chip is quite an incredible thing.

Director 8 Shockwave Studio is now the platform of choice for those sites determined to provide the richest possible Web experience

Getting your PC to meaningfully accept voice commands or dictation has been a benchmark for futuristic computing since time immemorial. Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS for short) has been a leader in the field for some time now, and is rapidly becoming devoid of competition.