The cheapest way to get OS X, but it has all of the MacBook Pro’s shortcomings and more of its own

A stunning piece of design matched with excellent battery life, but with an Atom inside the price is surely too high

Yet another solid HP laser, but it’s beaten by ?rivals in virtually every key area.

It may be lovely, but Sony’s under-powered P-series costs too much and features features poor battery life.

The Olympus PEN E-P1 may look like a throwback to retro photography, but it’s expensive and flawed. However, it's beautiful image quality renders almost impossible to dislike.

The Touch Pro2 is the ultimate corporate smartphone in terms of features, but it’s just too big and beefy.

The Canon EOS 500D is capable of great results, but a wallet-draining way of getting HD video on a DSLR.

Oodles of storage and middling performance, but found lacking

Fantastic looks but a high price for what is, essentially, the same old netbook under the hood.

A new focus on animation, better video support and deeper integration, but not the core authoring package it once was.

Cheaper than the HF10, although you need to factor in the cost of storage cards

With Web Standard/Premium, Design Premium AND Macromedia’s products now absorbed into CS3, choosing the right suite is EASY.

HTC’s long-awaited Shift is finally here, but despite valiant efforts it fails to revitalise the UMPC template

A superb DSLR that’s a joy to use, but the high price and poor software damage value

This first of a new generation is only a little faster than the old, but its potential is clearly huge

Not the best road handling, but the offroad features could make it very attractive.

A new interface, drawing engine and programming language, but surprisingly little new power.

With average image quality and a lack of up-to-date features, we can’t recommend the LP2465.

Not the best value, but this desktop NAS appliance offers good backup and webserver facilities.

The first Blu-ray drive to actually BE available in Australia. The massive price should fall quickly.