This attractive netbook is not only stylish, but extremely good value for money at $589 (US$407) including a generous 6-cell battery and LED screen.

The HP Mini 2140 injects a little prestige back into netbooks, blending style with decent performance and respectable specs.

What can a vendor-controlled comparison of notebook technology teach us? Plenty – but not in the way it was intended. Read on as we expose HP’s notebook ‘Reliability Challenge’.

The HP Mini 1001TU lid has a silver spiraling pattern across the piano black surface, making it the most attractive netbook we’ve seen.

It looks the Asus Eee Box isn’t the only interesting mini-desktop around. Amid the swathes of Centrino 2 and small form factor notebooks at IDF this week, we spotted this – a mini Centrino 2 desktop.

Online services are growing smarter by the day – but can they replace desktop applications? We spend a week working online to find out.

Improved handling of templates, tracing, text and layers along with new table support, but ultimately X4 disappoints

Microsoft’s radical redesign promises ‘better results, faster’. Be fully prepared for this world-leading productivity software.

A rewritten front end makes Excel’s significant power far more accessible than before.