Built-in tracing and improved drawing, formatting and colour correction make X3 the best CorelDRAW upgrade in years.

The Quark-killer has finally landed. For the last year, the hype about Adobe's replacement for the worthy but old-fashioned PageMaker (reviewed issue 22, p108) has been building to fever pitch.

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A cheap card, with the bonus of reasonable gaming ability.

The Barracuda ST3160023AS is a fair performer in our labs, ranking fourth and above average when it came to handling the binary.

It's a little ironic that every new version of Mac OS comes closer to Windows when you consider that Microsoft was originally accused of hijacking Apple's interface. Apple claims to have put 150 new features into Panther, but the two it highlights first are improvements to Finder and the new Exposé[alt+0233 in courier new]. The improvements to Finder bring it one step closer to the Windows menu system, which since 95 has been superior to Apple's. The new one click-reveals-all Finder was sorely needed and makes Panther much easier to navigate than its predecessors.

Forget the low-ish pixel-count, this camera has the lot: handling, features and image quality. Add that to the high-powered battery, good for a claimed 2000 shots, and you have a real belter

Dodo cops another warning, but not all Internet providers are in the bad books for customer support.

What you should expect if a cut down version of Omni Page comes bundled with your scanner.

The SyncMaster 172X from Samsung was a bit of a powerhouse in our tests, scoring highly in all regards except one: surprisingly the monitor was a little over-saturated, meaning whites looked a little washed out, and this would not change regardless of how we tweaked and fiddled with the screen’s settings. However in day-to-day usage you’d barely notice this.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has withdrawn a survey critical of mobile operator Hutchison’s third generation mobile network.

The notebooks were subjected to several benchmarks to give an objective evaluation of their speeds, performance and applicability.

Outstanding. Fantastic. Excellent. The FlexScan came top or equal top in all areas of our quality testing.

3Dlabs has a strong reputation amongst the professional graphics community for producing high performance and high quality chipsets and graphics cards. The Oxygen range spans the low to high-end of the professional OpenGL market, with the GVX1 falling in the middle of this range.

The FS-2020D puts in another excellent display for a business laser printer that swept all our printing awards and catagories. It dosn't get much better than this Kyocera printing marvel.

A capable card – decent performance without a high price.

Not particulary quick, but a resonably priced media card.

Can’t handle gaming, and beaten by cheaper media cards too.

Not pretty, but a technically competent and comprehensive upgrade to the best free office suite around.

Where incremental steps forward are becoming commonplace, the Sony is a giant leap – simply stunning