Cheap meats effective in this scalable, rackmountable, professional KVM switch.

Seven USB ports delivered with characteristic Belkin quality and price.

Not as stylish as the Dell, but the BenQ’s image quality and HDMI port make it our top 24in LCD.

If laptops were cars, then the Pioneer Power 470 would be a caravan - a quick scan of the specs reveals that it has almost everything. The 470 model we tested was a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 unit with a large 60GB of drive space and 256MB of DDR.

Just where do you start? Best point would be to introduce this Vaio as the first commercial offering designed and built from the ground up for Windows XP. The next point is simply that this is the most visually stunning notebook we have seen in a long time.

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.

The best convertible tablet we’ve seen great performance and great design at a decent price.

It's a sign of the times when Compaq's Aero 8000 runs Windows CE in a box bigger than a Sharp PC-A250 (reviewed issue 23, p86) running Windows 98. So what's the big idea? Windows CE uses no moving parts, while software in ROM means immediate start-up times, high reliability, and long battery life all highly desirable qualities in a portable.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

A great choice for anyone who needs a backup to their broadband connection

David Moss tackles misbehaving com ports and resolves a windows share issue.

Fast, cheap to run and offering flawless text quality, this is a great-value option.

A compact IP telephony router with great features, but the web interface isn’t user-friendly.

Packed with features, and with great performance, the only disadvantages are the price and the short warranty.

A compact IP telephony router with great features, but the web interface isn’t user-friendly.

Good value, but it needs to decide whether it’s a business or consumer notebook.

If you need a little more quality than a budget model, look no further than this professional yet affordable LCD.

The glossy screen both delights and frustrates, but this is an impressive entertainment display.

Looking sleek and a little smaller than your average midi tower, the t134a sits on top of the Pavilion series. This machine is a powerful home/office PC – not rigged purely for gaming.