Yes, it’s bigger and dearer than ever, but it’s also the most usable and well-made Eee PC yet.

A great way to extend your desktop once you’re out of DVI ports

Despite some odd feature choices, this is an affordable powerhouse of a laptop. A great value mid-range Centrino 2 laptop, as long as you're not worried about battery life.

A vibrant gaming LCD, but it becomes jarring in everyday use

Graphics card manufacturers’ obsession with multi-GPU boards continues this month. The Asus HD 3850 X2 brings to market the novel formula of two ATi Radeon 3850 GPUs on one card.

A feast of features for those willing to pay

A high-end board bristling with great ideas

Intel has been banging on about Centrino 2 lately, so it was good to finally get a chance to test the claims courtesy of a spanking new mid-range Centrino 2 M51 Va courtesy of ASUS.

Classy looks and light weight make for a fine ultraportable, but it’s got some tough competition.

Lite-On’s DVD writer was our A-List choice for almost a year. At the time we said it was practically perfect – offering compatibility with every format, plus Lightscribe, for a bargain price. But Asus has managed to trump it.

Vivid colours and some interesting extras make this the perfect entertainment-focused LCD

More storage and a bigger screen address the main issues that arose with the original, but the price has risen too.

We've put both mini-notebooks through their paces, and while Linux fans may disagree, the winner is clear.

An HDMI-equipped board ideal for small media-centre systems

A great set of features and plenty of power, but the price is very high for this ultraportable.

Blu-Ray notebooks are the next battleground, and the good news is they're slowly getting cheaper. ASUS is staking a claim with this monstrously powerful behemoth.

Despite sitting in third place for write speeds and fourth overall for the read portion of our testing, this drive has a couple of trump cards up its sleeves.

As the technology is getting more mature, there is now an abundance of 802.11b cards on the market.

Like the KT4 Ultra, the ASUS A7V8X is an Athlon XP board that uses the VIA KT400 chipset. It packs in a truckload of extras, such as Serial ATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN, AGP 8X and even RAID.

The board's ability to increase CPU core voltage in 0.025V increments as well as adjustable FSB/DDR ratio with fixed AGP/PCI frequencies allows for maximum performance with absolute control.