An attractive, feature-packed player that deserves to be auditioned

For anyone serious about getting fit, a heart-rate monitor is a must.

With 3D monitors poised to become popular, Samsung have produced one of the first in Australia - the Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ, a 22-inch 120Hz monitor capable of running in three-dimensions.

Impressive print quality, a good turn of speed and decent features, but it simply costs too much to own.

A surprise return to form for Nvidia, as this card matches ATI’s latest for both performance and value.

ATI does it again with its latest GPU, combining superb performance with a reasonable price

A comprehensive set of features and good performance

With more homes served by their own wired and wireless networks, there’s no better way to store all your music, movies and documents than a NAS box like this

Although it’s not a screamer at short range, the good long-range performance (at 5GHz at least) makes the Linksys WRT610N an attractive choice

High resolution stills and laudable quality for the money, but image stabilisation isn’t the best

Fast but disappointing card that delivers only small benefits over its predecessors for a significant price premium.

A useful little NAS box with plenty of features and a compelling price.

A solid, assured drive with plenty of interfaces and enough style to justify the price.

A Media Center Extender, upscaling DVD player and great games console

With a lightning-fast scanner and high-quality photo printing, it’s only hampered by speed and running costs. CD printing and transparency scanning are bonuses, though.

Astaro Security Linux turns any PC with the right hardware in to a dedicated firewall and router system with minimal fuss.

Anyone with $400 to spend on a graphics card should currently be looking at a RADEON X800 XL. It boasts the same 16 pipelines as an X800 XT, and also packs 256MB of GDDR3 memory to boot.

This unit is quite similar to the Pinnacle ShowCentre in look, as it's a wide and deep slimline component for nestling in amongst your other hi-fi componentry.

Portability has been talked about a lot recently, and people are starting to get used to the fact that their printer can be just as portable as the rest of their equipment. Canon has been offering portable laptop printers for several years and selling just enough of them to persevere, however, with the digital camera boom they are starting to come into their own.