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

Disk-imaging software can be put to many varied uses, and products like Drive Image prove particularly useful in our labs when upgrading to a new hard disk or for swiftly refreshing a test system.

Devices that attach storage to the network aren't new, but until now they've been either very expensive or limited in ability. But this little marvel from Asus changes all that. The WL-HDD can put a hard disk on the network with no drivers or client software required, and it can do this wirelessly via 802.11g.

USB 2.0 hard disks are a convenient way of backing up your data, but if you want to share the files with other computers over a small office or home network they're not ideal. But Linksys has an alternative. The Network Storage Link (NSL) takes a USB 2.0 hard disk or flash drive and puts it on the network.

Protect your PC from itself and yourself

Some interesting technology, married with superb performance – and a huge price tag.

Eye-catching and very well designed, the new iMac is an excellent all-in-one PC system.

The iDshot from Sanyo is the latest digital still-cum-digital video camera in a package that can capture still images between 640 x 480 and 1,360 x 1,024 pixels.

When Symantecs Norton Ghost 2002 was released last year, it offered few improvements, with support for Windows XP the only significant addition. Not so with Drive Image 2002.

Tandberg delivers an innovative hard disk-based alternative to tape for small-business backup operations.

Clean lines undermined by poor performance and a high price.

Easy to use, and with space for a second SATA disk, but it struggles with small files and is overpriced for the features.

BenQ's U-Disk 256MB shares a similar slide-USB port as the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Labs Winner -- this keeps the unit fairly small and pocket-friendly.

One of the cheapest Vista SSD notebooks we've seen yet, though we're surprised by the benchmark results.

Attractively small and aggressively priced, the Ultra Slim is an interesting proposition for businesses

Hitachi DZ-MV100A

Just over four months on from our massive hard drive roundup (October 2002, page 74), and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks have finally arrived. Phew.

This notebook was designed from the ground up with business and security in mind, and it succeeds.

New image editing tools and a more powerful library mode makes Lightroom 2 compelling. It's also compatible with Vista 64-bit.

Windows virtualisation that really works: it isn’t without foibles, but it’s a great way of running Windows from OS X.