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

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

New wizards make it easier to use, and the range of operations is impressive for such a reasonable price

A useful, versatile partition-management tool that can cope with most current file and disk systems.

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

Powered by an Intel Pentium-M 1.6GHz, the Modtech Civic Diamond 1600W Centrino notebook has a decent core specification, including a useful 512MB DDR RAM, 40GB of disk space and an ATI Mobility RADEON 9000 card offering 64MB of non-shared memory.

Very compact and incredibly cheap for an A3 all-in-one, but speed and print quality are only average

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Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

A 2,400 x 2,400dpi flatbed scanner, features an LCD and one-touch front panel buttons for printing/copying, emailing, burning and sharing images.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package