MSI's Prestige laptop comes with a whole bunch of goodies: how does a wireless mouse, 4GB USB key, leather carrybag and leather stitched lid sound, for starters? And that's before you look under the lid.

Is Apple good at design? Usabilty? Both or neither? Also, where has all the Firewire gone? Alex Kidman has been testing Apple's new Macbook and gives his first impressions.

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

Awesome power and features at a Reasonable price – but keep it plugged in.

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

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

If you want a monstrously powerful laptop, look no further.

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

A stunning design backed up by great performance and good value for money.

Very fast for some applications, but poor gaming performance and strong competition reduces its appeal.

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

Dell’s first foray into using AMD processors is a modest performer, but fair value.

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.

It might lack style and cutting edge technology, but this 19" monster packs in power and features.

A good-value and very powerful system that will appeal to those seeking ultimate performance.

Small form factor (SFF) PCs now have their foot well and truly in the home entertainment and IT/CE crossover market due largely to their aesthetics, functionality and quietness of operating volume. Westan's Biostar product looks to continue along these lines, offering a multimedia PC with all the performance of AMD's 64-bit desktop processor architecture.

When we sent out the call for multimedia systems we were expecting notebooks and PCs capable of DVD playback and some basic gaming. Pioneer not only cleared this bar with their submission - they raised it.

MSI's MegaBook L61OI lives up to its 'mega' moniker with a large 15.4-inch widescreen TFT, desktop CPU, excellent graphics and pumping audio. The model we looked at was a pre-production prototype notebook and as such was a little shaky and did not come with all the inclusions a final model will have. As a proof of concept, however, the notebook is quite good.

Designed from the ground up with gamers in mind, GameVision has produced a fine looking and practical system with plenty of potential. The system is built around Intel’s now legendary 2.4GHz Pentium 4 ’C’ stepping processor, one of the most overclockable chips available on the market. With substantiated overclocks of up to 3.6GHz with stock air-cooling, these unassuming CPUs are powerhouses of frequency, if you know how to milk the most from them.